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.

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

Mos Def was deeply involved in two projects in response to the February 1999 shooting death of Haitian immigrant Amadou Diallo by four members of the New York City Police Department.

Online for the first time, Mos Def's story from The FADER issue 3 provides a crucial reminder that "the present is a product of the past." Plus, there's a cameo from Q-Tip.

“Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years,” the artist who no longer wants to be called Mos Def—but whom we will still probably call Mos Def—explained to MTV.

The debut album from Black Star, “Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star,” released on Sept. 29, 1998 (the greatest release date in hip-hop history) did not disappoint.

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American musician, actor and artist most commonly known as Mos Def was arrested this week in South Africa on charges of using a fake passport, after his U.S. passport expired while he and his ...

Instead, Mos Def received a call from the play’s director, George C. Wolfe, who cast him opposite Jeffrey Wright in the two-man show. Wright portrays a onetime three-card-monte hustler named ...

Mos Def has finalized a deal for a multi-episode arc on the sixth season of Dexter, according to sources.. The actor and hip hop artist, who now goes by just Mos, will play a hardened ex-con who ...

Really Mos Def’s Daughter? As it turns out… yes! She confirmed her parentage in an interview with Complex‘s Jordan Rose. While the interview hasn’t been published yet as of this writing, ...