From his start as a child actor to being nominated for Grammy Awards as Mos Def, see Yasiin Bey’s journey to legendary status ...

Mos Def performs onstage with Gorillaz during the Meadows Music and Arts Festival - Day 2 at Citi Field on September 16, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images) There are a few ...

Retired hip-hop star Mos Def and advertising executive Free Richardson are opening a gallery in the South Bronx next month called The Compound. The space, located in the neighborhood real-estate ...

Hip-hop artist, singer and actor Yasiin Bey (formerly Mos Def) has been detained by South African authorities after he attempted to leave the country to perform at a show in Ethiopia—and the situation ...

The talented, politically minded rapper Mos Def has gained more acclaim for his work as an actor in such films as “Something the Lord Made” and “The Italian Job” than for his music in the last several ...

On this day, Oct. 12, in hip-hop history... Despite the album's anti-commercial bent, the album was a surprising sales success for a small, independent album, selling over 500,000 copes on it's way to ...

Like so many film genres, action pics have grown lazy. A recent crop has been content to hustle us with fast edits, quicken their flow with the noise of guns cocked, shots fired, music cranked up.

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. I’m actually ...

If you watch Mos Def onscreen, you might notice a leanness about him that stems from neither build nor jaw line. He does not gasp for dramatic air like a man held underwater. Let the first-team ...

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. There are a few songs I vividly remember hearing (or seeing if the video ...