The more you listen to Mustafa, you begin to realize that the juxtaposition of the gritty street life he depicts and the gentle music he makes shouldn’t be much of a juxtaposition at all. Half of the ...

The 24-year-old Canadian musician memorializes friends lost to violence on his debut EP, “When Smoke Rises.” By Jon Caramanica LOS ANGELES — In the middle of Mustafa’s potent, chilling and ...

Mustafa wasn’t too worried when police hauled him and two friends into a Toronto bullpen a couple of years ago. It was his first and only arrest, on a charge that would eventually get dropped, and he ...

Mustafa is a secondary character in the short series of cover art he’s debuted since emerging as a solo artist a year ago — if he’s a character at all. His first single, “Stay Alive,” is visualized ...