If ever there is a genre of music caught in a permanent state of limbo, it has to be alternative hip-hop. Once alternative artists are discovered and break through into the mainstream, they are ...

Mos Def has always known that it's kinda dangerous -- literally, physically -- to be an MC, but that awareness never kept him from the task of producing sharp, illuminating hip-hop. For the past few ...

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 ...

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 ...

Looking back, the whole thing was a mess: rap reimagined as half-articulated boho worldview rather than, like, a way to have fun, Mos Def scolding rappers for jacking beats two songs after jacking an ...

The birthplace of hip hop is getting a new art gallery that plans to “highlight the fusion of visual art and hip-hop, hoping to usher in underrepresented artists from marginalized backgrounds and ...

OPINION: “Black on Both Sides” managed to be political, entertaining and jammin’ in a way that few albums have managed since.