Continuing with last week’s “real hip-hop” concept – Mos Def and Talib Kweli are a couple of the guys out there still sticking to the roots of hip-hop.  They don’t brag about their bling and their iced-out Lamborghinis.  They discuss life, music, culture.  That’s where hip-hop came from.

Definition has a lot of great elements that should put it on anyone’s list as one of the best hip-hop songs ever.  Lyrics here.

Again, listen to the beat and the rhyme structure and try not to cry as you remember the shallowness of “Shorty got them Apple Bottom jeans…”