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Taye Diggs on Mos Def

By now, after films like Monsters Ball and Something The Lord Made we knew that Mos Def’s talents expand beyond his lyrical genius. And Taye Diggs corroborated that fact when he spoke to BlackFilm.com about his co-star.

“He’s crazy and he’s unbelievably talented and unbelievably underrated. He’s just what this movie needed. He’s what I needed, someone to play off because he’s raw. He won’t say anything that he doesn’t want to say, but he’s polite. We benefited from him and Queen Latifah. Latifah is hip-hop, she’s not old and neither is hip-hop, but she was there at the forefront. So it was good to have people that are so in the music be in this movie. It gave it some authenticity. I would work with anyone from this movie again but I would specifically love to do something with him and explore that relationship even deeper. There’s a lot going on there.”