Just in time for the holidays and to remind the hip hop listmakers that The Ecstatic was/is the truth, the two-time Grammy nominated Mos Def has scheduled a show on 12/20 at Highline Ballroom. Tickets ...

Mos Def performs onstage with Gorillaz during the Meadows Music and Arts Festival - Day 2 at Citi Field on September 16, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images) There are a few ...

Multi-talented emcee Mos Def will return from a 3 year hiatus with his 4th studio album, The Ecstatic. Mos debuted two new tracks courtesy of his Myspace page (www ...

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 ...

Mos Def's new album, The Ecstatic, will be available on a t-shirt. But how do you get it in the CD player? Richard Trenholm Former Movie and TV Senior Editor Richard Trenholm was CNET's film and TV ...

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Mos Def's late-2006 release "True Magic" was so quietly whisked out in the dead week between Christmas and New Year's (without cover art, no less) that rumors circulated that ...

Yesterday (June 3) reports hit the net that Mos Def’s new album, The Ecstatic, had been pushed back to August, but Pretty Flaco’s new label Downtown Records has denied the rumors. In an email the ...

Mos Def‘s third album True Magic comes out on December 29th. It features production from Pharrell Williams of the Neptunes, Minnesota and Preservation. Why anyone would release an album between ...

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Rapper Mos Def is working on his debut release for indie label Downtown Recordings, after his major-label swan song died a quick death last year. According to Downtown head Josh ...

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OPINION: “Black on Both Sides” managed to be political, entertaining and jammin’ in a way that few albums have managed since. Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed ...