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 ...

Laila! is a rapidly rising up-and-coming artist, and there’s been a great deal of speculation about who her father is. Many people guessed it could be Yasiin Bey, formerly known as Mos Def, but ...

Is Laila! Really Mos Def’s Daughter? As it turns out… yes! She confirmed her parentage in an interview with Complex‘s Jordan Rose. While the interview hasn’t been published yet as of this writing, ...

Mos Def has joined the film Can a Song Save Your Life?. The musical drama focuses on a music executive (Mark Ruffalo) who forms a friendship with a young singer-songwriter (Keira Knightley), who is ...

The 6 God is a mastermind with the subliminal shade, apparently. Drake has broken the internet again with his latest social media stunt that has people believing he’s subliminally shading Mos Def ...

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. There are a few songs I vividly remember hearing (or seeing if the video ...

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 ...