As long as some of the artists named below continue bundling songs together, I'll refuse to believe that the album has followed Elvis into the afterlife. A few were too long, a few were under the ...

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 ...

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

Chuck “Jigsaw” Creekmur ponders Drake as “pop” and offers a different view on the Canadian hit maker than Mos Def aka Yasiin Bey. As we stride toward the 51st year of Hip-Hop, there’s a curious twist: ...

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 ...

Here's something you rarely hear about a Richmond concert, rap or otherwise: The sound was great! Music was center stage as hip-hop royalty Mos Def graced the city for the third installment of the ...

Gil Scott-Heron, the now 59 year-old “Godfather of Hip-Hop,” wrote and sang this in the early 1980s: “I take pride in what’s mine—is that really a crime—When you know I ain’t got nothing else? / Only ...