On this day in hip hop history, 27 years ago, Mos Def and Talib Kweli joined forces to release their iconic debut album Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star on Rawkus Records — a landmark project that ...
Mos Def performs onstage with Gorillaz during the Meadows Music and Arts Festival - Day 2 at Citi Field on September 16, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images) There are a few ...
Rapper and film star Mos Def announced he will change his name at the end of the year to Yasiin, the name of the 36th surah, or chapter, of the Quran. According to Entertainment Weekly, Mos Def ...
Mos Def is hard at work on his LP, "The Estatic," but not with Kanye West as previously reported. By Hillary Crosley Mos Def is hard at work on his upcoming album “The Estatic,” but not with Kanye ...
On this day, Oct. 12, in hip-hop history... Despite the album's anti-commercial bent, the album was a surprising sales success for a small, independent album, selling over 500,000 copes on it's way to ...
Mos Def has announced that he will be dropping the name "Mos Def" by the end of this year, and will henceforth be known on record as Yasiin. "I’m retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I’m actually ...
Retired hip-hop star Mos Def and advertising executive Free Richardson are opening a gallery in the South Bronx next month called The Compound. The space, located in the neighborhood real-estate ...
The talented, politically minded rapper Mos Def has gained more acclaim for his work as an actor in such films as “Something the Lord Made” and “The Italian Job” than for his music in the last several ...
What better way to enjoy Mos Def's new album, The Ecstatic, than on ... er ... a T-shirt? Sounds like a stupid idea? Yes. But stupid ideas don't seem to faze Mos Def ...
Mos Def was being sought by police on an arrest warrant stemming from a scuffle with a photographer at a fashion trade show last August, authorities and the alleged victim said Thursday.“I had no idea ...
Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. There are a few songs I vividly remember hearing (or seeing if the video ...