Rapper Yasiin Bey, better known as Mos Def, was arrested in South Africa at the Cape Town International Airport on Thursday for traveling with a fake passport.. Bey has been living in South Africa ...

On ‘Don’t Tread on Me,’ rapper Mos Def speaks out against Stop and Frisk. theGRIO REPORT - Mos Def continues to draw attention to the issues at the core of the trial in a PSA-styled video ...

Massive Attack played a powerful headline set at London’s LIDO Festival last night (Friday June 6), where they were joined by actor and activist Khalid Abdalla and Yasiin Bey (formerly Mos Def).

American jazz saxophonist, Kamasi Washington. Credit: The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images Kamasi Washington Carriageworks, June 8. Jazz can be a divisive genre, but those partial to polyrhythms and ...

The garage-rock duo are dishing on their new album ‘No Rain, No Flowers’ ahead of their Los Angeles show.

Held in an L.A. art gallery last night, it featured flashing lights, Mos Def, and “approximately forty nude women … wearing face-obscuring masks seemingly made of faux lamb’s wool.” Of course.

Led by a sunny Lalah Hathaway duet, Fort Lauderdale classical-meets-hip-hop duo Black Violin should win more Grammy Award attention for their first album in five years, "Full Circle." ...

A photo exhibition at City Hall celebrates an iconic 1998 photo taken by Gordon Parks in Harlem that featured 177 hip-hop artists.

However, subsequent occasional but memorable cameos on Jay-Z’s 2001 hit “Girls, Girls, Girls,” Mos Def’s 2009 track “Auditorium” and a handful of others have proven that Rick remains a ...

The final names joining Massive Attack at their LIDO Festival headline show have been shared. Check out the details here.

Just a few months ago, pro-Palestinian college students around the country were getting arrested and detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But some are now challenging their detentions ...