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.

Rapper and artist Yasiin Bey talks to MSNBC's Ari Melber in this interview from inside Bey's new art installation at the Brooklyn Museum, discussing his approach to making music and art, race ...

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 ...

If you think hip hop is all murdered samples and lyrics about money and hos, then Mos Def could teach you a thing ... of Indian traditional music, while quotes from Malcolm X and Femi Kuti give ...

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 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.

WHEN TOPDOG/UNDER DOG, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play that’s being hailed as one of the most exciting shows on Broadway, made its debut last summer at a downtown theater, Mos Def was in 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.

One of those big stars was rock and roll pioneer Chuck Berry. He's played in the movie by Mos Def, an innovative rapper who's pushed hip-hop in new directions. Mos Def has also taken risks on a ...

Hip-Hop fans have long known that Yasiin Bey aka the Mighty Mos Def is superb poet. Now readers of The Paris Review will recognize as well since one of the Brooklyn native’s poems has been ...

Mos Def is joining the cast of Dexter. The hip hop star, whose acting career includes a recent guest-starring gig on House, will appear on multiple episodes of the Showtime hit as an ex-con who ...