NYTimes: What’s Mos Def listening to?

Georgia Anne Muldrow & DOOM of course!

(above, Mos visits Georgia at her studio – Photo: FROLAB)

Mos gives readers some insight into the music that he’s been listening to lately and of course Georgia Anne Muldrow made the list!

from NYTimes:

Georgia Anne Muldrow

She’s incredible. She’s like Flack, Nina Simone, Ella, she’s something else. She’s like religion. It’s heavy, vibrational music. I’ve never heard a human being sing like this. Her voice is wildly, finely expressive. It’s so singular. It’s hip-hop, the way that she approaches it rhythmically, she’s got so many jazz influences. It’s something else and you can just feel it. With “Georgia Anne Muldrow Presents Ms. One” (Someothaship) she’s like J. Dilla, the legendary producer. She makes her own beats, she rhymes, she sings, and she plays. If people love Amy Winehouse, they’re going to get their minds blown when they hear Georgia Anne Muldrow.

Doom

He’s one of the greatest rappers of all time. His new album, “Born Like This” (Lex), is incredible. He references Charles Bukowski, and I’m a big Bukowski fan. It would be like if Miles Davis was born in another time and didn’t play horn but he rhymed, and if Miles Davis wasn’t handsome and he rhymed. Doom’s a bit gnarly, it’s not friendly music. It’s really funny. Doom is an experience, he’s an incredible M.C. I’ll put money on him against any of these rappers. He’s so raw, very clever, socially maladjusted. I like those guys that make you mildly uncomfortable. The danger is real with him.

Check out the article from this weekend’s New York Times to read the rest of the list which also includes Noisettes, Fucked Up, and Tumi and the Volume, a band he discovered recently on his trip to South Africa.