"The stuff that I write doesn't work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play."

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So rather than really have, like a close relationship to anything that's coming out today, people are just, they've got it on as background music. It's kind of the same way the cabdrivers use music; it's very disposable. But, that doesn't mean there aren't a great number of artists who are doing things to change that.

— Mos Def