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Yasiin Bey (Mos Def)

April 2023

  • Affirmation … Posdnuos performs at the Royal Albert Hall, in front of an image of Dave ‘Trugoy’ Jolicoeur, who died in February.

    De La Soul review – bittersweet triumph honours lost bandmate Trugoy’s legacy

    Hip-hop star Posdnuos leads a celebration that doubles as an emotional wake for his friend – while guests from Yasiin Bey to Damon Albarn help generate maximum energy

May 2021

  • ‘Overly drawn to low-hanging fruit’: Salman Rushdie.

    Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020 by Salman Rushdie review - self-absorption writ large

    Rushdie is overly drawn to low-hanging fruit in this smug collection of criticism, speeches and essays

March 2018

  • ‘Be here for this’ … Yasiin Bey at the Troxy.

    Yasiin Bey and Robert Glasper review – mercurial hip-hop star finds magic in the moment

    Teaming up with jazz maverick Glasper, the rapper formerly known as Mos Def performed a gripping set with the spontaneous vibe of an after-hours jam session

November 2016

  • American actor and musician Yasiin Bey

    Yasiin Bey announces farewell shows in New York and Washington

  • Mos Def at a court hearing in Cape Town earlier this year.

    Hip-hop artist Mos Def allowed to leave South Africa

January 2016

  • He can’t give everything away … are there more puzzles to come from David Bowie?

    What we learned this week
    What we learned this week: Bowie theories, Glenn Frey's death and more

    As amateur sleuths pored over Blackstar, Abba reunited to plug a Stockholm taverna and Yasiin Bey got into a spot of bother with South African officials
  • ‘No more parties in SA’ … Yasiin Bey

    Rapper formerly known as Mos Def announces his retirement from music and film

    Rapper formerly known as Mos Def protests in the wake of his detention in Cape Town, announcing his retirement from music and film industries
  • Yasiin Bey performing in August 2015.

    Yasiin Bey arrested for 'immigration violation' at South African airport

    The rapper and actor formerly known as Mos Def has been given 14 days to leave the country after he was arrested for outstaying his visitors’ permit

August 2015

  • Yasiin Bey, also known as Mos Def

    Rapper Mos Def fails to amuse as comedian

    Performing under his real name, Yasiin Bey gives underwhelming performance in European debut of his standup show

November 2014

  • Yasiin Bey, AKA Mos Def

    Yasiin Bey review – the artist formerly known as Mos Def disappoints

    The hip-hop star gives a glimpse of just how great he can be – which makes this bizarre, patchy show all the more frustrating, writes Ian Gittins

September 2014

  • Life of Crime, review

    Life of Crime review – a poor man's American Hustle

  • Jennifer Aniston in Life of Crime

    Life of Crime review – a good-natured, unexpectedly winning treat

July 2014

  • Talib Kweli

    Vinyl cut
    Vinyl Cut: Talib Kweli goes record shopping with the Guardian

    In the first of a new series, the Guardian took rapper Talib Kweli record shopping at Rough Trade's New York store. Kweli, whose hip-hop breakthrough came via his partnership with Mos Def as Black Star, tells how his interest in music stemmed from 1950s rock'n'roll, Motown and jazz. Gil Scott-Heron and Little Dragon were part of an eclectic selection

May 2014

  • Mos Def

    Yasiin Bey, aka Mos Def, cancels US tour amid 'legal' wrangles

    The rapper, who now lives in South Africa, has decided not to come back to his native US for 'immigration/legal' reasons

September 2013

  • Mos Def, Jason Hawkes and Jennifer Aniston in Life of Crime

    First look review
    Life of Crime: Toronto 2013 - first look review

    Jennifer Aniston, Tim Robbins and John Hawkes set the scene and dispatch killer dialogue in this adaptation of Elmore Leonard's The Switch

July 2013

  • Shortcuts
    When Yasiin Bey was force-fed Guantánamo Bay-style – eyewitness account

    Ben Ferguson: In an instant, he was no longer Mos Def – rapper and Hollywood star – but a powerless prisoner, experiencing what hunger strikers in Guantánamo Bay endure daily

  • Obama urged to halt Ramadan force-feeding at Guantánamo

    Islamic leaders call on administration to rethink policy towards hunger-striking detainees during religious fast

  • Mos Def

    Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) force-fed under standard Guantánamo Bay procedure – video

    The actor and rapper, who now goes by the name Yasiin Bey, experiences the procedure of being force-fed like those on hunger strikes in Guantánamo Bay

May 2013

  • Guardian Africa network
    Rebuilding Africa: Ozwald Boateng takes on biggest design project yet

    Savile Row tailor enlists the help of Africa's wealthiest business leaders to help overhaul the continent's creaking infrastructure

July 2012

  • Ken Loach, Trailer trash

    Trailer trash
    Trailer trash

    Ken Loach is honoured by the French, and real male strippers liven up the Magic Mike after-party, writes Jason Solomons
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