On this day in hip hop history, 27 years ago, Mos Def and Talib Kweli joined forces to release their iconic debut album Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star on Rawkus Records — a landmark project that ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mos Def performs onstage with Gorillaz during the Meadows Music and Arts Festival - Day 2 at Citi Field on September 16, 2017 in ...
On this date in 1999, Brooklyn lyricist, actor, and social activist Yasiin Bey—who the Hip Hop world first knew as Mos Def—released his debut solo album Black On Both Sides on the Rawkus/Columbia ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jay-Z, Outkast, A Tribe Called Quest and Black Star all dropped albums on this seminal day in hip-hop history. (Photo illustration ...
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 ...
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Right now, Black Star, the classic rap duo of Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def) are touring Europe, celebrating their 30th anniversary as a group. There have been complications.