Mos Def's Big Band Vision Is Still Evolving. September 22, 2008. 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 ...

Mos Def’s concert at a sold-out House of Blues on Sunday perfectly encapsulated the Brooklyn-born rapper’s solo career: a blazing start followed by indeterminate stretches of waning focus.

Mos Def returns with The Ecstatic, and while the title may be a little overly optimistic, the contents are some of the best he’s released since 1999’s classic. Skip to content.

Yasiin Bey (fka Mos Def) played the first of two shows at New York City’s historic Apollo Theater last night, bringing out special guests Slick Rick and Pharoahe Monch during his set. Bey and ...

Yasiin Bey can’t catch a break, it seems. Partway through his set at Oakland’s Fox Theater Friday night, as part of the “final shows in the U.S.” for the Brooklyn-raised rapper once known as Mos Def, ...

Multi-talented emcee Mos Def will return from a 3 year hiatus with his 4th studio album, The Ecstatic. Mos debuted two new tracks courtesy of his ...

After listening to “Auditorium,” by Mos Def and Slick Rick, students in CU alum Alison Corbett’s English class at Montbello split into four groups and spent a half-hour trying to formulate the most ...

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.

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.

Yasiin Bey (fka Mos Def) began his two-night stand at The Apollo, which he says will be his last NYC shows ever. A full-set video has been uploaded of night one ...

The debut album from Black Star, “Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star,” released on Sept. 29, 1998 (the greatest release ...