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Rapper and artist Yasiin Bey talks to MSNBC's Ari Melber in this interview from inside Bey's new art installation at the Brooklyn Museum, discussing his approach to making music and art, race ...

Rapper Mos Def might have to fork over some of his earnings from Erykah Badu’s “Unfollow Me” tour to pay off one of the mothers of his children. Mos Def, who goes by Yasiin Bey and has six ...

The rapper once known as Mos Def may have to fork over nearly $100,000 in earnings from an upcoming show to pay off his baby mama’s attorney fees from their child-support battle, court papers show.

The rapper once known as Mos Def may have to fork over nearly $100,000 in earnings from an upcoming show to pay off his baby mama’s attorney fees from their child-support battle, court papers show.

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.

February 5, 2020 • The latest album by the rapper formerly known as Mos Def will be heard by very few people — a fact that represents everything fascinating and frustrating about his last decade.

Famously, Yassin Bey (formerly Mos Def) and Talib Kwali, the two MCs who make up the rap duo of Black Star, released their long-awaited sophomore album No Fear of Time on The Midnight Miracle Podcast.

After months of being kept on a shelf somewhere in NORE’s lab, the Drink Champs episode featuring Talib Kweli, Yasiin Bey (Mos Def), and Dave Chappelle has finally hit the airwaves and it was ...

“To me J. Cole, Kendrick Lamar…these [type of] artists existed early on when I fell in love with hip-hop, but it was Talib Kweli, it was Mos Def, it was A Tribe Called Quest...Common Sense ...

The insightful, lyrical Kweli gained recognition in the late 1990s for his collaboration with fellow Brooklyn rapper Mos Def in the socially conscious group Black Star. He’s also made stellar ...

Over the years the festival has also attracted a significant portion of the jazz police, who have been known to complain that certain acts — a Frank Zappa here, a Mos Def there — don’t ...