Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def) could prove the exception ... The two performed “Auditorium.” Slick Rick, being Slick Rick, was dressed to party. He wore a violet coat and matching ...

After performing "Auditorium" with golden-era icon Slick ... does when he executes the same type of line. A photo posted by Mos Def (@yasiinbeyy) on Dec 23, 2016 at 1:21pm PST That performative ...

It was also the last he made as Mos Def – the name the Brooklyn-bred ... Bite Hard', the weed-soaked boom bap of 'Priority', and 'Auditorium', a Bollywood-sampling banger produced by Madlib ...

Mos Def has announced that he will be dropping the name "Mos Def" by the end of this year, and will henceforth be known on record as Yasiin. "I’m retiring the Mos Def name after 2011.

Hip-hop artist, singer and actor Yasiin Bey (formerly Mos Def) has been detained by South African authorities after he attempted to leave the country to perform at a show in Ethiopia—and the ...

The rapper once known as Mos Def may have to fork over nearly $100,000 in earnings from an upcoming show to pay off his baby mama’s attorney fees from their child-support battle, court papers show.

Mos Def was one of those cats. From the opening bars, “From the first to the last of it, delivery is passionate, the whole and not the half of it, vocab and not the math of it …,” I felt ...

The Ruler raps over the sultry 60s Bond style 'Auditorium' with its haphazard ... The Ecstatic' can be challenging in places, but Mos Def always knows not to push it too far.

Just in time for the holidays and to remind the hip hop listmakers that The Ecstatic was/is the truth, the two-time Grammy nominated Mos Def has scheduled a show on 12/20 at Highline Ballroom.