Before Yasiin Bey (once known as Mos Def) retires from rap, he will release his final album next month. His final album with producer Ferrari Sheppard is called December 99th. The album will drop on Dec. 9th via TIDAL and the collection will only have nine songs. No guest features, just Bey spitting his insightful rhymes […]
The Army Corps issued a letter demanding that the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe vacate the land so that they can move forward with building the controversial oil pipeline.
Born in Brooklyn, New York to a professor and school administrator, Talib Greene Kweli grew up in an educated environment and was drawn to afrocentric rappers and conscious artists like De La Soul and Native Tongues. Talib would write short stories and poems as a child and teenager, but it was a 1994 trip to […]
Yasiin Bey, formerly known as Mos Def, just announced his retirement from the music industry. Bey is currently still detained in South Africa after trying to leave the country with a “world passport.” He dropped an audio message on Kanye West’s website to let everyone know what’s going on in his situation across the globe. […]
The U.S. Supreme Court is slated to decide whether President Obama will have the power to prevent illegal immigrants in our country from being deported.
Could 2015 be one of the best years for Talib Kweli? The Brooklyn conscience emcee has already released an album this year — the free-to-download F*** the Money— and now he already has another one on the way. It’s a collaborative album with producer 9th Wonder, and it’s set to feature Brother Ali, Hi-Tek, Krysis, Bad Lucc, Problem, Rapsody, […]
Ever since being barred from entering the U.S., Yasiin Bey, formerly known as Mos Def, has kept himself out of the public. Aside from making…