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.

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.

Mos Def and his entourage rolled up on a flatbed truck outside Radio City Music Hall in New York at 10 p.m. Thursday night and began an unscheduled performance for the crowd of fans outside the venue.

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.

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.

“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.

Rapper and film star Mos Def announced he will change his name at the end of the year to Yasiin, the name of the 36th surah, or chapter, of the Quran. According to Entertainment Weekly, Mos Def ...

Mos Def, who initially made his mark as an actor, has always moved in the latter direction, shunning the low-life approach for an intellectual and socially conscious spew worthy of W.E.B. DuBois.

On this day, Oct. 12, in hip-hop history, Mos Def dropped his debut album, 'Black on Both Sides.' ...

Mos Def must appear in court for allegedly breaking South Africa's immigration laws, an official said Wednesday. The rapper and actor was charged with using a false identity, ...

Rapper Mos Def will release his long-in-the-works sophomore solo album, "The New Danger," Sept. 28 via Geffen.