The 42-year-old hip hop artist, actor and activist, whose birth name was Dante Smith but who has used the name Yasiin Bey for the last five years, was arrested in Cape Town in January after trying to ...

Authorities say rapper Mos Def is being sought on an arrest warrant in Las Vegas after allegedly scuffling with a photographer at a fashion trade show in August. Police say the 35-year-old rapper, ...

Kanye West lent his eponymous website to his good friend Yasiin Bey (commonly known as Mos Def) Tuesday night so that the New York rapper and actor could explain what’s going on in South Africa and ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Mos Def performed Club Ebony and The Bus Actor and rapper Mos Def seems to have fallen in ...

*Yasiin Bey — formally known as rapper Mos Def — has decided that he wants no part of a new Thelonious Monk biopic after learning the estate of the late jazz artist disapproves of the project. As ...

It looks as if anyone planning on seeing the artist formerly known as Mos Def perform in the United States this summer is out of luck. The Brooklyn-born rapper, now known as Yasiin Bey, is having ...