Rappers with Mos Def's reputation and charisma aren't supposed to wait five years between albums, but the Brooklyn native has been legitimately distracted. He can act -- and Hollywood adores him for ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — An American rapper has found out the hard way that a "world passport" isn't accepted in South Africa. Mos Def must appear in court for allegedly breaking South Africa's immigration ...

NEW YORK -- He is the conscious rapper, conscious in the post-Y2K sense, referencing Islam, Jimi and Trane, a rapper for whom keeping it real means buying a bookstore in the 'hood, a bookstore in ...

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Rapper Mos Def is working on his debut release for indie label Downtown Recordings, after his major-label swan song died a quick death last year. According to Downtown head Josh ...

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The American rapper known as Mos Def will be allowed to leave South Africa on Tuesday after he apologised for breaking immigration laws. The rapper - whose real name is Yasiin ...

Rap star Mos Def was arrested last night (Aug. 31) after MTV’s Video Music Award’s because he didn’t have authorization to perform outside of Radio City Music Hall in New York. The rapper, born Dante ...