If you’re wondering why you haven’t heard much from hip-hop artist Mos Def lately, it’s because the Brooklyn-born rapper-turned-actor changed his stage name more than two decades ago. It wasn’t the ...

Yasiin Bey (fka Mos Def) was arrested in South Africa (where he’s been living since 2013) back in January, and he’s been out on bail there, not allowed to leave the country, ever since. The arrest was ...

The legendary MC tore into the music industry’s streaming model, comparing its greed to Scrooge McDuck. Yasiin Bey—formerly known as Mos Def—unleashed sharp criticism on the modern music industry, ...

Bey has spent the last week in the headlines after he was detained in South Africa for allegedly trying to leave the country using an illegal “world passport.” He used his audio message to rap 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 ...