Yasiin Bey

Yasiin Bey

"Basquiat Ghostwriter"

PUBLISHED Aug 14, 2015

Drake's recent beef with Meek Mill has meant that ghostwriting has been a hot-button issue in hip-hop as of late. Now, Yasiin Bey has waded...

Yasiin Bey

Ship Point, Victoria BC, July 15

PUBLISHED Jul 14, 2013

He may have been in a rare mood on Saturday night but when Yasiin Bey (the hip-hop artist and actor formerly known as Mos Def) took the sta...

Yasiin Bey Submits Himself to Force-Feeding in Support of Guantanamo Bay Detainees

PUBLISHED Jul 8, 2013

Rapper Yasiin Bey (a.k.a. Mos Def) has shown his support for detainees currently being force-fed by U.S. officials at the Guantanamo Bay de...

Yasiin Bey

'The REcstatic' ('The Ecstatic' remix album by Preservation)

PUBLISHED Jun 12, 2013

Four years on from the release of Yasiin Bey's The Ecstatic (recorded under then nom de plume Mos Def), the rapper's tour DJ Preservation h...

Yasiin Bey

"The Light is Not Afraid of the Dark" (prod. by Kanye West)

PUBLISHED Apr 6, 2013

Yasiin Bey, the artist formerly known as Mos Def, is currently hard at work on new material. First, however, the good people at Okayplayer...

Yasiin Bey

"I Don't Like" (Chief Keef cover)

PUBLISHED Nov 28, 2012

Chief Keef's "I Don't Like" is without a doubt one of the biggest rap tunes of the year, having exploded as a viral hit before getting a mo...

Yasiin Bey

"Float" (Muhammad Ali tribute) (video)

PUBLISHED Oct 18, 2012

Brooklyn rapper Yasiin Bey has been relatively quiet since releasing the excellent The Ecstatic in 2009. He's dropped tracks here and there...

Yasiin Bey

"Sunshine Screwface" (prod. J Dilla)

PUBLISHED Mar 7, 2012

The late, great J Dilla hasn't been with us since 2006, but his prolific output and lasting influence means that his music lives on. We wer...