“It is truly an honor and a privilege to stand on this stage before you in this present time and in any time. Respect to all of the legends who has stood here before,” says Yasiin Bey (born Dante ...

Gil Scott-Heron, the now 59 year-old “Godfather of Hip-Hop,” wrote and sang this in the early 1980s: “I take pride in what’s mine—is that really a crime—When you know I ain’t got nothing else? / Only ...

Yasiin Bey can’t catch a break, it seems. Partway through his set at Oakland’s Fox Theater Friday night, as part of the “final shows in the U.S.” for the Brooklyn-raised rapper once known as Mos Def, ...

Hip-hop artist Mos Def performed the track "Quiet Dog" last week on Late Night with David Letterman. The track comes from his recent release The Ecstatic, released June 9, 2009.

In 2000, for The FADER's 3rd issue, we hung out with Mos Def—now known as Yasiin Bey—at New York's Empire Diner for his very first cover story. Mos Def is missing the Grammys. Holed up for the past ...

The last few years have witnessed the transformation of Brooklyn rapper Mos Def from underground icon to overground star, thanks to 1998's "Mos Def and Talib Kweli Are Black Star" and "Black on Both ...