This morning, via Kanye West’s own website, Yasiin Bey aka Mos Def shared a very personal message from Cape Town, South Africa where he was arrested for travelling with a fraudulent passport stating how he is being detained “unjustly, unlawfully and without any logical reason”.
Starting off the message with a freestyle during which he sounds frustrated and disheartened he says “Why these police up in my face? Why they raiding my place? Why I don’t feel safe? This is not an expression of fear. This is just to make things clear. My intentions are pure in coming here. And that’s for everything I love or hold dear. Homies in the building. So is my wife and my children. I committed no crime. Why is the state wasting my time?”.
It appears that during the message he points at retiring from music as he says “I’m retiring from the music recording industry as it is currently assembled today, and also from Hollywood, effective immediately,” as he says. “I’m releasing my final album this year, and that’s that.”
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Text James Hutchins
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