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 ...

On this day in hip hop history, 27 years ago, Mos Def and Talib Kweli joined forces to release their iconic debut album Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star on Rawkus Records — a landmark project that ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kweli and Yasiin Bey announced in 2018 that they have been recording the follow-up to their 1998 debut, ‘Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star.’ Kweli posted a photo of himself and Bey inside of a ...

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 ...

Talib Kweli had this to say... "As many of you know, Mos Def is taking some time off from the Breed Love Odyssey tour. I do not know what Mos is going through, but whatever it is, it is enough to make ...