Yasiin Bey offered his unfiltered critique of the current music industry, and he has some thoughts. In a new interview with The Guardian at Paris Fashion Week, the Brooklyn native reflected on his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Few artists in Hip Hop have traveled as boldly, or as unpredictably, as Yasiin Bey. Born Dante Terrell Smith in Brooklyn, he first ...

As the year comes to a close, music fans are looking forward to what 2025 has in store. Well, in hip-hop heads should expect the joint album trend to continue. In a post on Instagram (viewable here), ...

The mention of the Big 3 has fans thinking the verse is a disappointed reference to Drake, J. Cole, and Kendrick Lamar, after repeated mentions of their grouping as a unit on records wound up touching ...

UPDATE: According to an interview on A Country Called Earth two months ago, Yasiin Bey is not on Instagram. It is still unclear who is behind the MosDefOfficial account. “And I’m not on Twitter, I’m ...

UPDATE: Yasiin Bey actually doesn't think Tekashi 6ix9ine's "Gummo" is "the most depressing s**t I've ever seen in my life." Following the release of A$AP Rocky's ...

Kendrick Lamar is currently still on the road, and at one of his European tour stops he was visited by another top-tier MC, Yasiin Bey — check out a pic of the pair below. On Wednesday (July 30), a ...

Yasiin Bey might be back and The Alchemist is the accomplice. Yasiin Bey, the artist formerly known as Mos Def, is making his long-awaited return to music with a new album titled Forensics, set to ...

To be an MC — at least in the way expressed above — is an arduous and relentless endeavor. Even if you have the gift of gab as a lyricist, there’s still a discipline necessary to craft the words one ...

Yasiin Bey, the rapper formerly known as Mos Def, can be a truly electric live performer if you catch him on the right night. It's just that every night is not the right night. A few months ago, Bey ...

Footage of the MC seemingly rapping about Kendrick Lamar, Drake and J. Cole makes the rounds. Yasiin Bey, aka Mos Def, made headlines in January when he classified Drake as pop and not Hip-Hop. Drake ...