Hip-Hop fans have long known that Yasiin Bey aka the Mighty Mos Def is superb poet. Now readers of The Paris Review will recognize as well since one of the Brooklyn native’s poems has been published ...

The day that Barclays Center opened, late last September, Yasiin Bey (the former Mos Def) was in his adopted home of New Orleans, fielding a stream of calls. “People were asking, ‘Are you gonna be ...

Rapper/actor Mos Def, who is now going by the name Yasiin Bey, apparently, is a fifth-generation Brooklynite. Understandably, he was none too pleased about the Barclays Center showing up and hastening ...

On Thursday, we wrote about the latest poem from Yasiin Bey — the former Mos Def. Titled “On center.stadium.status,” it’s a response to the opening of Barclays Center, written last September, on the ...

For the 25th issue of The FADER, published 10 years ago, Mos Def was one of three artists who gave us their uncensored, first-person account of American life. Here are the Brooklyn rapper/producer's ...

On Saturday, June 28, 2008 the JVC Jazz Festival brought Brooklyn's own renaissance man, Dante Smith, a.k.a. Mos Def, to town with his big band Amino Alkaline Orchestra, featuring special guest Gil ...