Gil Scott-Heron, the now 59 year-old “Godfather of Hip-Hop,” wrote and sang this in the early 1980s: “I take pride in what’s mine—is that really a crime—When you know I ain’t got nothing else? / Only ...

Arriving one year after his acclaimed Black Star collaboration with Talib Kweli, Black On Both Sides expanded Mos Def’s ...

I can’t find the exact details anywhere, but it appears that Mos Def IS playing the Breed Love Odyssey Tour with Talib Kweli. According to Yale Daily News, the pair played six Black Star songs ...

The rapper once known as Mos Def may have to fork over nearly $100,000 in earnings from the gig to pay off his baby mama's attorney fees. Getty Images The rapper once known as Mos Def may have to fork ...

Remember how, during the lockdowns for COVID-19 in 2020, livestream performances were all the rage? Well, Yasiin Bey (who you might know as backpack rap pioneer Mos Def) hasn’t forgotten; he’ll be ...

Rapper Mos Def might have to fork over some of his earnings from Erykah Badu’s “Unfollow Me” tour to pay off one of the mothers of his children. Mos Def, who goes by Yasiin Bey and has six children by ...

Mos Def has announced that he will perform a one-off live show in London. The rapper will play London's KOKO on April 15 in support of his album The Ecstatic, released in June 2009. The record is ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Looking back, the whole thing was a mess: rap reimagined as half-articulated boho worldview rather than, like, a way to have fun, Mos Def scolding rappers for jacking beats two songs after jacking an ...