According to Beys [Mos Def] own timeline recounted by Rolling Stone earlier this year, he moved away from Brooklyn not long after, before eventually settling in Cape Town in 2009. He told Rolling Stone about the move: I lived in Brooklyn 33 years of my life. I thought Id be buried in that place. And around seven years ago, I was like, you know, I gotta go, I gotta leave. Its very hard to leave. And I lived in a lot of places: Central America, North America, Europe for a while. And I came to Cape Town in 2009 and it just hit me. I was like, Yeah. I know when a good vibe gets to you. And, you know, I thought about this place every day from when I left. Im not here just for like middle-class comfort, you know. Sure, its a beautiful place, you got the ocean, the mountain, the botanical garden, the beautiful people, the history, the culture, the struggle and everything — maaan, let me tell you something, for a guy like me, who had five or six generations not just in America but in one town in America, to leave America, things gotta be not so good with America.
Posted on: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:00:51 +0000