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Poet of the Week: Mos Def
July 24, 2011
Mos Def, freestyling.
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starch
nectarine
bitterness
cosmos
pedestral
subtitle
hero
knob
rank
gift
mouth
soup
hundred
gin
check
speaker
submission
anywhere
root
cap
castaway
shore
phosphorescence
disease
century
prose
shower
craving
survive
question
million
democracy
bruise
menace
justice
gap
ceramic
resort
excuse
edge
lifestyle
asphalt
gatekeeper
defeatist
page
pirate
heel
efficiency
oyster
muscle
fashion
school
title
marble
notion
bucket
godsend
realization
profile
surgeon
white
hurt
fingernail
pupil
lace
reality
whiteness
par
belt
craft
love
porch
freedom
perspective
desert
sense
meek
hardness
pony
splash
helium
scar
sleepless
smell
fabric
business
emoticon
sanctity
distraction
gate
winter
brake
soap
supermarket
bastard
mutation
pad
spinach
hospital
grammar
choise
Coke
dolphin
blow
shot
height
apple
pastureland
rich
failure
toil
cactus
leaf
south
island
agenda
vastness
pillage
bed
men
bedroom
link
untouchable
ozone
carriage
nothingness
flight
error
apartment
brother
seed
track
glimpse
intimate
volume
lotus
experience
counsel
jacket
land
undertone
American
foreign
antique
soccer
season
libya
meaning
expression
lego
meal
mantelpiece
ivory
brakelight
talk
whole
wave
poem
cell
nude
education
perfection
wait
resentment
reference
voice
lowland
movie
chapter
debris
tax
exhalation
milk
sun
lane
confident
grain
farm
exit
tricycle
kid
piece
touch
metaphor
blossom
lion
puddle
rule
headline
seaweed
casuality
geometry
level
buddhist
heavy
notebook
desk
paperclip
control
vault
abnormal
clock
timelessness
street
strain
pedal
attitude
whoosh
electrolyte
public
tide
laugh
consonant
horse
heart
defense
table
amplifier
ass
brunt
time
coffee
cityy
poet
guest
lapse
facebook
telephone
clothing
camera
practice
translation
pacific
olive
payday
milimeter
tango
astronaut
jesus
staple
down
Sunday
war
cry
nation
european
president
hat
sexy
force
focus
paste
knowing
standard
ache
magnet
seam
license
tangerine
wagon
gravity
motor
world
robe
sunrise
profitable
contour
reservation
arithmetic
periphery
elbow
bedtime
bounce
thought
muzzle
twin
steel
present
seismic
curtain
flint
strategy
hunt
sensitivity
lethal
secretary
china
hprizon
lightbulb
guy
sorrow
television
soldier
tongue
waterstain
tendency
witness
port
scratch
toilet
wax
math
sin
pore
orange
digital
merlot
Buddha
renovation
theory
paper
property
beer
acceptable
comfort
espresso
goal
heaven
tour
cleavage
scam
globe
survival
taste
puck
eternity
humanity
probability
lucid
pouch
red
roof
cat
crack
honor
Ecuador
peace
bad
puppy
girl
skull
badge
puppet
satellites
indecision
martini
projection
intimacy
bathroom
clank
span
hurricane
champagne
sigh
joy
river
glucose
khaki
register
convenience
enterprise
pavement
glass
photo
image
stump
sandwich
testosterone
acupunture
deadline
goat
egg
Finnish
trolley
rain
storage
couch
ebb
float
pillow
curve
reminder
display
record
expanse
attendance
zone
railroad
chance
aftermath
decision
breeze
hint
violent
essence
mammoth
anticipation
direction
natural
sum
curb
heating
blush
spare
criminal
kiss
debt
rules
plate
ember
mannequin
bleach
sodium
Andes
detachment
driveway
tradition
jungle
push
jellyfish
advice
lust
shade
music
eel
bang
magic
woofer
archive
snake
oxygen
breath
waterfall
grade
newsweek
carbon
combination
pajama
insulin
load
manual
sensation
board
radius
travel
angel
path
clay
tarma
satin
army
conveyor
string
up
pinky
administration
adjective
simplicity
throne
lotion
good
lover
sinkhole
dirt
carcass
blindness
breakfast
humble
adult
backflip
death
sister
club
flak
Gatorade
cake
rope
girlfriend
toes
transmission
footprint
weight
autumn
hum
fairytale
sugar
tonight
dragon
newspeak
atlas
thunder
bitch
raindrop
arch
warmness
cancer
job
soil
soul
gutter
tatoo
assent
timme
horsepower
pepper
free
canyon
origin
advertising
temporary
hip
sparkle
transparency
key
man
dress
shadow
cart
calendar
stamp
year
backcountry
envelope
apocalypse
somebody
trutth
speakerbox
sweetness
birthday
language
fact
spontaneousness
flame
cheese
quadrilateral
tissue
prayer
paperback
vessel
PacMan
response
mayo
prairie
spine
portrait
unorginal
nape
blurry
luck
spoon
reptile
interstate
fuzz
term
gallery
mattress
supernova
proud
tupperware
riot
waves
call
blanket
shelve
spain
set
boredom
look
canal
yard
news
swell
handhold
buick
obstacle
resonance
cloth
dawn
technology
era
shampoo
pleasure
cityscape
pedestal
flat
noodle
hourglass
mantra
chat
content
machinery
christmas
need
sadist
cavern
biblical
paragraph
gaze
backroad
vague
moment
irritant
stage
request
fort
abyss
genius
crusade
jet
credit
escaltor
data
drink
children
stand
afternoon
glee
downtown
algorithm
dictator
monday
anthill
attention
italian
vest
opening
tent
view
cow
framework
car
tollbooth
formula
inventory
burden
murder
candle
prostitute
tone
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brain
angle
defensive
alone
fire
suitcase
headboard
grease
murmur
pop
soundtrack
struggle
net
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rubber
powder
sick
pain
toxin
oak
starfish
window
sex
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savannah
forest
concrete
stomach
countryside
schedule
pond
watchm
antenna
branch
thigh
spaniard
frigobar
noise
acrylic
magazine
unit
abstract
impermanence
plug
comedy
step
reborn
wife
effect
existence
emotion
taco
carrot
harvester
leftover
schooner
joke
goodbye
croissants
salad
earth
lip
checklist
source
signal
loss
family
national
airplane
park
robot
revolution
accessory
policeman
ampersand
ancestor
gambler
novel
popcorn
punch
clue
waiter
arm
meow
surface
awareness
hug
frame
medicinal
stairwell
refrigerator
globalization
farmville
ice
repetition
coal
return
bass
receipt
past
stewardess
desktop
choice
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stick
empty
airport
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studio
sheet
salmon
slope
state
torch
regret
loneliness
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corduroy
detail
buffet
barefoot
rare
ritual
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belief
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dusty
kitchen
comma
limit
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change
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avenue
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cash
moon
radiance
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dream
slide
head
citizenry
intersection
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hour
laptop
unseen
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thirst
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country
gratitude
assistant
sponge
smile
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myth
neutral
advance
flash
verse
invisible
wholesale
darkness
coincidence
skewer
dinner
shape
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chocolate
saturday
route
size
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phantom
neon
copper
consequence
horizon
factory
planet
iceberg
waitress
creativity
calorie
pocket
stillness
twilight
buzz
flower
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gound
tag
handshake
gulp
storm
food
hot
restlessness
order
tokyo
argument
economy
sport
permission
flashlight
pull
debut
noon
whim
chi
outside
sea
void
meeting
sunlight
butter
thread
agitation
alcohol
west
recipe
boundary
homeless
side
sandbox
chick
conflict
monopoly
marvel
ad
mayday
whale
commodity
cement
pub
wall
spark
shard
arrival
switchboard
equation
dollar
shift
trapeze
result
sunflare
cardboard
spam
form
shop
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sandalwood
rythmn
alignment
friend
whipcream
friction
christ
pebble
contact
moan
scarf
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seedling
helicopter
symphony
haze
weather
chip
dude
glue
manila
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cave
wrapper
value
bill
cable
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sky
florescence
prescription
leftist
warm
velocity
cold
midnight
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boot
rainbow
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sunset
vase
bank
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italy
corruption
relationship
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idea
mourning
campaign
satellite
pump
operator
arrow
hope
week
faith
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topsoil
dog
star
escape
partner
button
abundance
breakdown
treason
fence
flair
violence
sign
square
ravine
scheme
succulence
road
body
baseball
middle
alley
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lightness
burn
owner
power
fuel
lines
transaction
fight
bark
plain
code
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flour
ticket
sprint
spear
instant
animal
diamond
spray
aboriginal
stallion
international
walden
cinnamon
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pigeon
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balance
soft
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conscience
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decibel
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smalltalk
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vegetable
scream
flattery
drug
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metropolis
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continuity
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imagination
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secrecy
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clothes
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best-seller
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lie
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physicist
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metaphysics
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bag
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perfume
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taxi
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problem
mind
center
tree
filter
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pumpkin
fat
hyena
category
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stock
stoplight
session
mayhem
falseness
mistake
cheek
hybrid
wallet
knee
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shit
surgery
prisoner
horizontal
honesty
wholesomeness
transistor
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cloud
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hip hop
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history
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month
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concern
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monster
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spell
Africa
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confine
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appearance
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carpet
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