On this day in Hip Hop history 28 years ago, Brooklyn MCs Mos Def and Talib Kweli joined forces as Black Star to release ...

On this date in 1999, Brooklyn lyricist, actor, and social activist Yasiin Bey—who the Hip Hop world first knew as Mos Def—released his debut solo album Black On Both Sides on the Rawkus/Columbia ...

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 ...

An all-time classic, Black Star’s debut album put Yasiin Bey and Talib Kweli on the map, paving the way for their successful solo careers. Before they would establish careers as solo artists, Yasiin ...

Upon its release, The Ecstatic felt like a record that could only be released in 2009. The final album Yasiin Bey recorded under the Mos Def moniker, arrived at the beginning of Barack Obama's first ...

As long as some of the artists named below continue bundling songs together, I'll refuse to believe that the album has followed Elvis into the afterlife. A few were too long, a few were under the ...

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Mos Def's late-2006 release "True Magic" was so quietly whisked out in the dead week between Christmas and New Year's (without cover art, no less) that rumors circulated that ...

Folks will get to hear the album on January 25, but there's a catch. Meanwhile, apart from Yasiin Bey, The Alchemist has also hinted at many more big things to come in 2025, which can only mean good ...

Additional titles hitting stores this week include: The first album since 1999 from rapper Mos Def, “The New Danger” (Geffen). A combination book/album of songs inspired by motherhood from Celine Dion ...

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 ...