A new video by legendary hip hop star Yasiin Bey, better known by his stage name Mos Def, has quickly spread across the internet this week. It's not a music video, however, but is rather far more political in nature.

In the video, Bey undergoes the force-feeding procedure that many prisoners in Guantanamo Bay have had to endure since their hunger strike in February. They have taken to a hunger strike to raise awareness over what they believe to be torturous and highly illegal actions taken against them by the U.S. government.

"There are currently 120 detainees on hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay. 44 of them are being fed against their will. Yasiin Bey, better known as Mos Def, volunteered to undergo the procedure used on the detainees. This is what happened," starts the video.

Bey is then strapped into a chair and held down by several aides. A feeding tube is inserted into his nostril by a trained professional, and soon we can see just how painful the procedure really is.

It's not long before Bey starts heavily resisting, and eventually pleads for the demonstration to stop. Once the aides let go of him, Bey immediately begins to cry and holds his head in his hands, partly for his own pain, and partly for his realization of the pain these prisoners have had to endure for months.

"When the tube went in, the first part of it is not that bad, but then you get this burning. I got this burning. And it starts to be really unbearable, and it feels like something's going into my brain, and it reached the back of my throat, and I really couldn't take it," recalls Bey.

Many of the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay have been held there for over a decade and have still yet to receive a trial, which is a clear human rights violation. The U.S. has so far contended that since we are still fighting the "War On Terror," and that they are prisoners of war and do not deserve a trial.

Of course, the unsettling issue with that point is that the "War On Terror" knows no country border, and therefore anyone deemed a terrorist could be subject to the same indefinite detention. In fact, many of the prisoners at Guantanamo are not even from Iraq or Afghanistan, but rather, Yemen. In other news, there is still no timeline for the end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, despite President Obama's insistence that would happen five years ago.

"We believe it's wrong to force-feed at any time but it is particularly upsetting to do it through Ramadan," said Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman of the largest U.S. Muslim civil rights and advocacy group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). "It's not just a religious issue, it's also a human rights issue in violation of international norms and medical ethics."