Nineteen ninety-eight needed Black Star. Because before Black Star there was Puff Daddy, and in 1997, Puff Daddy was inescapable thanks to his grand and terrible year. His hit-making friend - his big ...

The second Black Star performance on Friday night (9/23) at the House of Blues (part of a larger tour) began around 12:30am with a set by DJ 33 1/3, accompanied by an MC who did just enough to get the ...

Rapper Talib Kweli will reunite with his Black Star group mate Mos Def next month as they headline this year’s Esurance ICER Air festival. The duo will perform Nov. 3 on the center stage at AT&T Park ...

Arriving one year after his acclaimed Black Star collaboration with Talib Kweli, Black On Both Sides expanded Mos Def’s ...

Are you looking forward to another musical project from the two New Yorkers? “I have an album with Diamond D and a new Black Star album with Yasiin Bey on the way,” Talib Kweli told AllHipHop.com in ...

After 24 years since the release of their debut album, Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star, Yasiin Bey (formerly Mos Def) and Talib Kweli, the hip-hop duo known as Black Star, are finally set to ...

The combined talent of rappers Talib Kweli, Yasiin Bey, formerly known as Mos Def, and comedian Dave Chappelle will be showcased in an upcoming podcast. “Making a podcast isn’t the obvious next move ...

Building off their involvement at this year’s Rock the Bells Festival, Mos Def and Talib Kweli will continue to tour, performing their classic 1998 collaborative album, Mos Def and Talib Kweli Are ...

The collaboration between Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey, the artist formerly known as Mos Def, has been one of the most formative albums in hip-hop history. Referred to colloquially as “Black Star,” the ...

Mos Def and Talib Kweli will headline the 10th Annual Black August benefit concert on Sunday, August 26 at the Nokia Theatre in Times Square, NYC. Black August is a project of the Malcolm X Grassroots ...

In a recent chat with MTV Hive, Talib Kweli gave fans an update on the Black Star reunion with Mos Def, once hinted at in August when a snippet of an unfinished Black Star track leaked, featuring a ...

I can’t find the exact details anywhere, but it appears that Mos Def IS playing the Breed Love Odyssey Tour with Talib Kweli. According to Yale Daily News, the pair played six Black Star songs ...