Mos Def has political views that some people cannot stand to hear.  Mos Def has ideas about the record industry that wants to make their profitable noise a commodity.  Mos Def is #69 on What White People Like yet he can still walk down the street in Brooklyn and be respected.  Mos Def can stand on stage spitting about politics, life, art, philosphy, comedy, weed and street with no music…it’s called poetry. Mos Def can be seen on 2000 movie screens several times a year and does not play hip-hop the typecaste stereotypes.  Mos Def also is done with the menagerie of hip-hop, so-to-speak.

With his latest endeavor, The Watermelon Syndicate, Mos stepped to the plate with an orchestra at hisback and an arsenal of hip-hop, jazz, soul and spoken word at Carnegie Hall in NYC on June 28th, 2008.

This is def a show I would recommend to anyone that wants to be brought back to a time when hip-hop was an art and not just The Good Life.

The Undrcrwn family was fortunate enough to be a part of the event when Mos approaches us to design and produce the commemorative tshirts for The Watermelon Syndicate performance.