‘HIP” is not a word you’d apply to most people who work on Broadway.So when word leaked out this week that the producers of “Top Dog/Under Dog” had lined up rapper Mos Def to star in the play on ...
If you watch Mos Def onscreen, you might notice a leanness about him that stems from neither build nor jaw line. He does not gasp for dramatic air like a man held underwater. Let the first-team ...
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 ...
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 ...
Chess Records has long been overshadowed by two other legendary black music labels, Motown and Stacks. But it's now getting its time in the spotlight with the new film called "Cadillac Records." The ...
A quarter century since Black On Both Sides, Stevie Chick dives deep into a savage display of talent from a young artist ready to take it all on, and reflects on the dispersed promise of what was ...
OPINION: “Black on Both Sides” managed to be political, entertaining and jammin’ in a way that few albums have managed since.
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