The last few years have witnessed the transformation of Brooklyn rapper Mos Def from underground icon to overground star, thanks to 1998's "Mos Def and Talib Kweli Are Black Star" and "Black on Both ...
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 ...
Mos Def is a living embodiment of the progress hip-hop has made since the late ’70s. Today the genre’s artists are no longer just masters of ceremony, but multi-faceted entertainers. In what now ...
The three-date Mos Def/DOOM tour, coming to NYC’s Nokia Theatre Times Square on Friday, February 26th, has already been rescheduled. With its new dates, the first show happened February 13th at ...
Joey Badass covered Mos Def’s “UMI Says” in the latest edition of Australian radio station Triple J’s Like a Version series. Backed by a live band featuring rising Zimbabwe-born, Melbourne-based ...
Showtime has released a new promo for season 6 of Dexter and it's not just a vague and flimsy sneak peek. The juicy new trailer shows a slew of new guest starts in action, including Colin Hanks, ...
Love shopping at Target? Bed Bath & Beyond? Then Drake’s music just might be for you. Yasiin Bey—better known as Mos Def—recently sat down for an interview with The Cutting Room Floor podcast, where ...
This is wild if it’s true. Mos Def is being linked to one of the latest rising stars, thanks to fans of the growing trend in live performance content platforms. It’s possible that you may have either ...
Mos Def is hoping to draw attention to what he sees as inequities in the U.S.' criminal justice system this weekend with the 10th annual "Black August" benefit concert at the Nokia Theater in New York ...
The hip-hop artist and “Dexter” actor says that “it’s time to expand and move on.” By THR Staff Mos Def (real name: Dante Terrell Smith) will take a cue from P.Diddy by changing his famous moniker. “I ...
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 ...