We know the skinny black tie looks great with a suit but leave it to Mos Def to make a case for wearing ... Pair a solid beanie with a mix of neutral pieces for a look that's effortlessly dope.

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 last few years have witnessed the transformation of Brooklyn rapper Mos Def from underground icon to overground star, thanks to 1998's "Mos Def and Talib Kweli Are Black Star" and "Black on ...

If there's one thing Mos Def has, it's ambition. The hip-hop superstar -- who's also an actor, musician and (like all good Renaissance men) a budding clothing designer -- has been trying to ...

If you watch Mos Def onscreen, you might notice a leanness about him that stems from neither build nor jaw line. He does not gasp for dramatic air like a man held underwater. Let the first-team ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

After more than two decades of being a living affirmation, Mos Def (born Dante Terrell Smith) has announced that he is retiring his stage name at the end of 2011 and beginning anew under the ...