Mos Def News

Blues-Rock band The Black Keys have teamed up with former Roc-A-Fella Records co-founder Dame Dash to create BlakRoc .

As half of the Akron blues-rock duo the Black Keys, guitarist Dan Auerbach tends to receive plenty of the same music-critic adjectives: rough , gritty , soulful .

Thursday, November 05, 2009 Current Music Presents Embedded with Common, Lykke Li and Bloc Party The plug: " Common takes us cross-country for a whirlwind promotional tour.

Performances By Reflection Eternal, Rock Steady Crew and National Double Dutch League-- New York, NY November 4, 2009 /PRNewswire/ - The world's most important b-boy battle, Red Bull BC One, is coming home to the birthplace of hip-hop--NYC. The b-boys have been announced, the judges have been chosen, the emcee locked down and the announcement of ...

There was a time when hip hop was rebel music, a blast from the inner-city alternating between party soundtrack and protest against injustice.

Hip-hop superstar Mos Def is a rare sight in Northern California, so news of his hastily put together show tonight, Oct.

The most memorable performance at the 2009 BET Hip-Hop Awards did not take place on a stage with bright lights and bootylicious dancers.

"The blog your favorite blogger reads...." Tuesday, October 27, 2009 Video: Eminem x Mos Def x Black Thought x DJ Premier - BET Hip Hop Awards Cipher #3 As I said on twitter , this was the best of the three ciphers by far.

Production wunderkinds such as Black Milk and Droop-E get props for their prolific catalogs, but don't overlook Oh No .

From an online perspective, Current TV's most talked-about shows over the past two years have been the short, snark-heavy media critique segments That's Gay and Target Women , which build their audiences thanks to a niche appeal and an engaging host who gives each segment a clear personality.

Andrew Emery pays tribute to the original rap attacker Mr Magic, the man who invented rap on the radio When even two sworn enemies a ' Tupac and Notorious BIG a ' can agree that you're a legend, chances are you're a legend.

It's easy to think that underground hip-hop is dead. The Internet has equalized everything to the point that there isn't much difference between Mos Def's and Mickey Factz's marketing plan, or Elzhi's and Eminem's, or Wale's and Will.i.am's. During the WWWization of the rap world, the next generation of indie hip-hop stopped standing in opposition ...

Now that the dust has settled on ACL Fest, a few thoughts: quite possibly the best show of the week took place indoors, in a dusty studio in the utterly nondescript Communications Building on UT campus.

On this special hour-long Embedded, Mos Def takes us on an all-access seven-day tour of Japan while he performs his new album a oeThe Ecstatica , to packed venues in Tokyo and Osaka.

In August, National Public Radio's flagship music program All Songs Considered published "The Best Music of 2009 ," a rundown of the top 30 songs and albums of the year-to-date as voted by the show's listeners... On the Best Songs list, there are no songs that cracked the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, and none by African-American ...

Between Lil Wayne last winter and the Rock the Bells festival in the summer, not to mention the odd Mos Def here and K'Naan there, 2009 hasn't been half bad for Calgary's hip-hop fans.

The "B-the-r-the-o-the-o-k-l-y-n" is where Mos Def lives, but Saturday night he was bringing some of his native dialect to a near-capacity crowd at the Edmonton Events Centre.

Similar to other aspects of life, within the hip-hop world, a rappers first impression means the world.

The rain started early during Saturday's edition of the Austin City Limits Music Festival.

The Levon Helm Band - According to the ACL website, 4598 people added Levon to their schedule, while across the pond, 14598 added Mos Def during the same time slot.