Earlier this year, Kanye West’s The College Dropoutproved that hip-hop moralizing didn’t have to be dull-or, for that matter, particularly moral. On “Get Em High,” Kanye enlisted the straitlaced Talib ...

You know we love tea about new couples over here, and you also know that we like to snoop on social media for clues. That being said, we couldn’t help but wonder if Zoe Kravitz is dating Yasiin Bey, ...

Mighty Mos Def sure has changed. Six years ago, he was the ultimate backpacker, dropping classic hit singles like “Universal Magnetic”; today, he’s acting in movies and making scat rap tracks like ...

Mos Def and Common will be two of several artists being filmed for a new music documentary series for cable channel Current TV titled “Embedded.” The debut episode, airing October 14, spends seven ...

On Saturday, June 28, 2008 the JVC Jazz Festival brought Brooklyn's own renaissance man, Dante Smith, a.k.a. Mos Def, to town with his big band Amino Alkaline Orchestra, featuring special guest Gil ...

It's been a strange, tumultuous week for Yasiin Bey, the talented Brooklyn-born rapper who used to go by the name Mos Def. Having overstayed a tourist visa granted to him by South Africa in 2013, ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The American rapper/actor formerly known as Mos Def was arrested in South Africa and given 14 days to leave for violating local immigration laws, a government spokesman said Friday ...