The hip-hop legend explained that he has no interest in performing at the big game – but he understands the prestige of it all. 3 days ago “His bass was so fucking funky,” the legendary Bronx producer ...

My favorite moment: Mos Def rapping over a personal favorite beat by Oxnard, CA artist called Oh No (find it on an album called “Dr. No’s Oxperiment”). It’s got a strong ’60s/’70s Turkish psych-rock ...

A couple weeks ago at a show in Chicago, Yasiin Bey (formerly Mos Def) debuted a track produced by Kanye West called “The Light Is Not Afraid of the Dark,” and for lack of a better word, it grooves.

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 ...

An independent filmmaker has crafted a film that enlists the likes of Mos Def, Fat Joe, Chuck D, Jadakiss, Busta Rhymes, Russell Simmons, and activists such as Michael Eric Dyson, Beverly Guy-Sheftall ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...