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 ...

On this date in 1999, Rapper/actor/social activist Yasiin Bey, who was formally recognized by the Hip Hop world as Mos Def, released his first solo album, Black On Both Sides on the Rawkus/Columbia ...

Yasiin Bey has been celebrating the 20th anniversary of Black on Both Sides, his solo debut as Mos Def. He played Brooklyn Steel in October, and plays Sony Hall in NYC tonight. He recently added a few ...

Trading in my fitted for a fedora and white tee for a trench coat, I probe the possibility that pgLang’s Golden Child just may be the strongest branch of hip-hop’s sprawling family tree. 12 hours ago ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yasiin Bey has a few other shows coming up, including appearances at Robert Glasper's Blue Note residency in NYC in October and Tyler, The Creator's Camp Flog Gnaw festival in Los Angeles in November.

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 ...