Let all rappers go to South Africa and stay there. Don’t come back
Mos Def did a superb acting job in “Something the Lord Made.” This 2004 HBO biopic was about the relationship between heart surgery pioneer Dr. Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas, a self-taught Black lab assistant played by Mos Def. The burdens and indignities of Jim Crow racism are shown, but the focus is kept on the relationship between Blalock and Thomas and their accomplishments in heart surgery.