Mos Def (or Yasiin Bey) is on a roll. First the Stephen Colbert performance with Talib Kweli. Now this footage of him performing 3 songs Saturday with the Brooklyn Philharmonic in Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn: his own songs “Life in Marvelous Times” (video above), and “Revelations” and, finally, a clip of his performance of “Coming Together,” written by the American composer Frederic Rzewski a month before the 1971 Attica prison uprising.
Sources: deebeezy.
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