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.

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 ...

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.

Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey formerly known as Mos Def form the group Black Star - (Photo Credit: Eddy "Precise" Lamarre) Rapper Mos Def does not consider Drake’s music to be hip-hop and is more ...

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 ...