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 ...
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 ...
Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: The Janelle Monáe thriller Antebellum was ...
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 ...
OPINION: “Black on Both Sides” managed to be political, entertaining and jammin’ in a way that few albums have managed since.
Mos Def insisted Drake is a “very talented MC,” and said he wasn’t trying to be “mean-spirited and unfair” with his take on Drizzy’s music. Yasiin Bey—better known as Mos Def— is clarifying his ...
Talib Kweli had this to say... "As many of you know, Mos Def is taking some time off from the Breed Love Odyssey tour. I do not know what Mos is going through, but whatever it is, it is enough to make ...