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Mos Def -- Mos Wanted

Posted Nov 5th 2008 5:50PM by TMZ Staff

Vegas police are on the lookout for rapper Mos Def over an alleged attack of a fashion event photographer in August.

Def -- real name Dante Terrell Smith -- faces charges of felony robbery and malicious destruction of private property and a warrant has been issued for his arrest.

Volker Corell -- an official photog for the Men's Apparel and Garment Industry Convention (MAGIC) in Las Vegas -- claims Def flipped out on him while he was taking photos of attendees at the event. Mos allegedly ripped Volker's camera off his neck, smashed it to the ground and then took off with the busted equipment.

Corell claims to have suffered a cut on his left hand during the alleged attack.

Def has a history of hating paparazzi, but Corell was a credentialed snapper for the event ... and get this: He says he didn't even know who Mos was until after the alleged attack.

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1. jackass...

Posted at 6:24PM on Nov 5th 2008 by ozzman

2. excuse me but barrak obama shouldn't be on ur topic of disscussion i find it distasteful and rude to target a person who has done nothing but helped other people and made better comunities from doing so esecialy having a "stunt double" pose in his behalf. only actors have that honor and unless hollywood owns barrack obamas humman rights you should not be doing this to him please have some decentcy and cast smut about some hollywood slut or something other than opur president thanks :)

Posted at 6:42PM on Nov 5th 2008 by matthew walsh

3. I'm sure Bruce Willis will save his ass again!

Posted at 6:47PM on Nov 5th 2008 by Darrell

4. Overall overhyped, was never a great rapper, a so-so actor and word on the street is he doesn't pay child support.

Posted at 6:51PM on Nov 5th 2008 by A Real Housewife from Compton

5. What else is new? TV and newspapers are full of this crap. Count it as another crime committed by a minority. That's not racist, that's a fact. There, I said it politically correct, not the way I really wanted to.

Posted at 6:58PM on Nov 5th 2008 by MNgirl

6. I just saw Mos on Monday in Amsterdam... get Interpol on the line!

Posted at 7:12PM on Nov 5th 2008 by meks

7. Damn yo! That's pretty gangsta yo! Word 'em up!

Posted at 7:27PM on Nov 5th 2008 by Campy

8. "claims to have suffered a cut on his left hand" Pussy ass photographer.

Posted at 7:29PM on Nov 5th 2008 by chad

9. Mens Apparel Guild In California = MAGIC, BUT HELD IN VEGAS.

Posted at 7:39PM on Nov 5th 2008 by AMC

10. With OBAMA, in office now there is no excuse for that kind of mentality. NO more do i want to here " oh is it cuzz im black" bull. NO EXCUSE!!

Posted at 11:33AM on Nov 6th 2008 by Anthony

11. don't mess with california apparel news!!!!!! haha.

Posted at 7:55PM on Nov 5th 2008 by 29.97

12. STFU!!
white people commit crimes all the time, too!
Just ask Jim Jones, Timothy McVeigh & the 17 yrs old white boy who killed his entire family!
White people beat up on paparazzi all the time.
Didn't Keanu try to run one over?

Posted at 7:52AM on Nov 6th 2008 by Rob

13. i love you Mos!

Posted at 9:08PM on Nov 5th 2008 by MELISSASSASSA

14. hey maggot maybe you can move out of the trailer park and stop sleeping with your sister that your father molested last night!!!! Oh stop kissing your dog in the mouth thats gross!!!Dont forget to make billy's dental appointment for his missing teeth sweetie!!!!! to MN girl Im sure you wouldn't tell a black person to their face what you really wanted to say because, you are all a bunch of two-faced online punks. Also, Im tired of hearing about the crack whores and d.u.i ,puppy in my purse having b*tches all the time. Oh dont forget, theres crime everywhere.You guys donot only commit it but you eat your victims and do all type of weird satanic sh*t! Im not saying it's right to commit a crime but dont be so quick to judge.All races have problems.Maggot you must live in 1829,wake up it's 2008 get the swastika out your anal area,b*tch!!!!

Posted at 9:21PM on Nov 5th 2008 by Somanycowardsamong us! wowwwwwwwwwwwww

15. This isn't the forum to post political comments, I don't know why someone has to connect Obamas' name with something this lame. He is another so-so rapper getting busted for acting big and bad in public. I suppose they have to get attention
some way once thier time in the spotlight fades away.

Posted at 3:28PM on Nov 6th 2008 by N

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