Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey formerly known as Mos Def form the group Black Star - (Photo Credit: Eddy "Precise" Lamarre) Rapper Mos Def does not consider Drake’s music to be hip-hop and is more ...

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Chuck “Jigsaw” Creekmur ponders Drake as “pop” and offers a different view on the Canadian hit maker than Mos Def aka Yasiin Bey. As we stride toward the 51st year of Hip-Hop, there’s a curious twist: ...

Champagne Papi uses a Method Man clip to respond to the “Umi Says” rapper. Mos Def had the Hip-Hop world talking in recent days. His take on Drake’s music became a trending topic on social media.

American rapper Mos Def appeared briefly in a South African court Tuesday on charges of presenting a “world passport” when trying to fly out of the country. The 42-year-old hip hop artist, actor and ...

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 children by ...

NEW YORK -- He is the conscious rapper, conscious in the post-Y2K sense, referencing Islam, Jimi and Trane, a rapper for whom keeping it real means buying a bookstore in the 'hood, a bookstore in ...

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