Mos Def News

Mos Def 's influence in the entertainment industry reaches far beyond just music.

Workplace raids reached an all-time high in 2008 with 6 ,287 arrests a ' a tenfold rise since 2003.

Hip-hop star Mos Def saved the day at the Rock The Bells festival in Toronto, Canada on Sunday when he stepped in at the last minute to replace absent rapper Common.

This year's version of Rock The Bells came off pretty much without a hitch as rapper Nas and reggae star Damian Marley capped off the day-long affair Sunday before a roughly half-filled Molson Amphitheatre.

July 2, 2009 at 7:14 am by Eric Snider Hip-hop seems adrift, with no particular faction dominating the pop psyche .

Words & Images by: JC McIlwaine Black Star :: 05.30.09 :: Nokia Theatre Times Square :: New York, NY Black Star :: 05.30 :: NYC Mos Def and Talib Kweli recently gave the hometown crowd a gift, reuniting as Black Star at Manhattan's Nokia Theatre for two back-to-back shows in one Saturday night.

While Mos Def's music has become significantly less interesting since he took up acting, "The Ecstatic," looks to be a worthy follow-up to his classic "Black on Both Sides." But Mos, was "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" really worth the delay between albums? Granted Moby hasn't been relevant since about 2001, but the stripped down and personal ...

In the late '90s, Mos Def distinguished himself with nuanced, thoughtful rap steeped in mature musical samples.

The Guardian reports that Dante Terrell Smith - known by his stage name Mos Def - is releasing his next album on a t-shirt. It is not technically on the t-shirt. The shirt contains the album cover on the front, track list on the back and a hang-tag code that lets you download the MP3.

Mos Def gets ready for the beach The lineup for this summer's Highline Ballroom/AEG-produced events on Governors Island has been expanded.

The rapper and sometime actor has turned to fashion to publicise his new record.

Fontana, the independent distribution arm of Universal Music Group , the world's leading music company, has topped the national albums chart this week with two albums in the Top 10: the self-titled debut of Chickenfoot and Mos Def's Ecstatic , according to Nielsen Soundscan.

Mos Def's late-2006 release "True Magic" was so quietly whisked out in the dead week between Christmas and New Year's that rumors circulated that the "real" album was coming sometime later .

If there's something that gets people's attention, it's news that you can now carry music around with you on a T-shirt! Now, before you get too excited, it will come as a big disappointment to learn that the said T-shirt...doesn't actually play any music?!? At this point, you may be wondering if it's all just a gimmick? Not so.

Sometimes you can't shake preconceptions. As an artist, your public persona usually stems from your inaugural work.

Pianist Robert Glasper presents both sides of his musical persona with Double-Booked, his third album for Blue Note Records, which will be released on August 25.

As a banjo player, Steve Martin is not funny at all. He's darned good, as he shows in "The Crow," an album that features 14 songs he also wrote.

The E.N.D. The Black Eyed Peas Interscope Let's just come right out and say it: "Boom Boom Pow" is the best song ever.

Wea re back with the weekly chart watch. This weeka s top ten is once again light on Hip-Hop with only one artist really showing up .

Fans have been waiting nearly a decade for a worthy follow-up to Mos Def's debut "Black on Both Sides," and he delivers with his most sharply focused effort to date.