22 years, the young Brooklyn rappers Talib Kweli and Mos Def (now Yasiin Bey) teamed up to release the classic debut album Mos Def And Talib Kweli Are Black Star. They still haven't followed it up. In recent years, Kweli and Bey have been working as a team again; they did a surprise reunion, for…

The project was initially announced early last yearTalib Kweli performs live with Black StarBlack Star’s Talib Kweli has confirmed that their long-awaited reunion album is finished – check out the clip below. Yasiin Bey – aka Mos Def – first announced that the hip-hop duo would be returning with a Madlib-produced new record back...

In the first episode of Succession, HBO's great show about the travails of an evil New York billionaire family, there's a scene that's excruciating on a number of different levels. It's the scene where we first meet Kendall Roy, the recovering-addict wannabe tech bro scion of this family. Kendall is in line to take over…

Just a few weeks ago, we watched journalist Hattie Collins interview Danny Brown in Glasgow for the RBMA UK tour, and today you can watch her interview A$AP Rocky at London’s St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel. At the beginning of this particular lecture, Rocky invites Mos Def up to the stage to talk about their friendship […]

Yasiin Bey, the former Mos Def, is a veteran of the New York rap underground who currently lives abroad and who has a history of changing his name. All those things are also true of MF Doom. Doom and Bey also shared a quick American tour a few years ago; it’s fair to say they […]