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20 Of The Best One-Producer Albums In Hip-Hop History
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Inside his series of collabos that never were, Producer Amerigo Gazaway brings together Brooklyn MC Yasiin Bey (formerly Mos Def) and soul legend Marvin Gaye in a never-before joint project aptly titled “Yasiin Gaye”. The album encompasses deconstructed samples of Gaye’s Motown classics where Gazaway re-orchestrates the instrumentation into new productions within a similar framework. He then metic
It's been a minute since we've heard from Yasiin Bey, but the artist formerly known as Mos Def released a major impromptu announcement earlier today. It turns out the Brooklyn-based MC has taken his talents to Africa to curate a new creative clan called A County Called Earth...
Music and fashion go hand in hand. Just as every artist has their signature sound, each has their own sense of style. Some artists are flashy while others are more conservative. Wearing a range of brands from street-wear to high-end fashion, different artists in the rap genre are creating an image and owning their look...
Anticipation was evident last week when Brooklyn Bowl announced that Black Star—Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey, formerly known as Mos Def—would be performing together for the first time since March on Tuesday night (Dec. 17). Today, however, the venue officially changed the event to read Talib Kweli and Friends. The show i...
Madlib showed up in London yesterday and announced a last-minute show last night at the Dance Tunnel. Details of the show became available yesterday morning, with scheduled guests that included Mr. Beatnick, Stones Throw's Egon, Paul White from One Handed Music and Benji B...
Warning: the above video is disturbing. Yasiin Bey—also known as Mos Def—is currently working with director Asif Kapadia and Human Rights organization Reprieve on a revealing project that debuted this morning. In the clip, Yassin participates in the standard force-feeding procedure conducted for detainees at Guantánamo Bay. Acccording to The...
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Jeymes Samuel—best known as The Bullitts—teamed up with Jay Electronica, Yasiin Bey and Lucy Liu for the title track, “They Die By Dawn.” The video doubles as a short western film that stars Michael K. Williams, Erykah Badu, Isaiah Washington, Jesse Williams and Rosario Dawson.
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Mos and Mannie Fresh's collab LP is coming soon. But, here's and unreleased track produced by Kanye West that is several years old and presumed to have been made around the time that Bey's 2006 album, Tru3 Magic was being recorded.
This week finds OFWGKTA head honcho Tyler, The Creator dropping his anticipated sophomore release Wolf, while Duck Down's Kidz in the Hall let loose a new EP titled Wishful Drinking. Despite the few album releases, fans have a number of new singles to bump, with recent ex-G...