Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mos Def performs onstage with Gorillaz during the Meadows Music and Arts Festival - Day 2 at Citi Field on September 16, 2017 in ...

Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey formerly known as Mos Def form the group Black Star - (Photo Credit: Eddy "Precise" Lamarre) Rapper Mos Def does not consider Drake’s music to be hip-hop and is more ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mos Def insisted Drake is a “very talented MC,” and said he wasn’t trying to be “mean-spirited and unfair” with his take on Drizzy’s music. Yasiin Bey—better known as Mos Def— is clarifying his ...

Mos Def has joined the film Can a Song Save Your Life?. The musical drama focuses on a music executive (Mark Ruffalo) who forms a friendship with a young singer-songwriter (Keira Knightley), who is ...

Mos Def's new album, The Ecstatic, will be available on a t-shirt. But how do you get it in the CD player? Richard Trenholm Former Movie and TV Senior Editor Richard Trenholm was CNET's film and TV ...

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 ...

OPINION: “Black on Both Sides” managed to be political, entertaining and jammin’ in a way that few albums have managed since. Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed ...