Yasiin Bey at Paris Fashion Week in January 2019. Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images for Louis Vuitton hide caption toggle caption Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images for Louis Vuitton Review Music Features The Paradox Of Yasiin Bey's 'Negus,' A Rap Album Trapped In An Art Museum February 5, 2020 • The latest album by the rapper formerly known as Mos Def will be heard by very few people — a fact that represents everything fascinating and frustrating about his last decade.
Review Music Reviews Twitter Music Reviews: Criticism As Haiku July 2, 2009 • Twitter, as we've seen in the protests in Iran, is becoming something of a force for democracy. It's proving useful not only for organizing street demonstrations but also for bringing down the walls around that most rarefied of communities: the world of music reviews. Twitter Music Reviews: Criticism As Haiku Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/106178234/106194013" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Music Interviews Mos Def: From Hip-Hop Star To Chuck Berry December 9, 2008 • Rapper Mos Def is not known for taking the artistically easy road. His film roles in Monster's Ball, Be Kind Rewind and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy are as distinctive as the records that have made him a hip-hop icon. He talks about his latest film role, playing Chuck Berry in Cadillac Records. Mos Def: From Hip-Hop Star To Chuck Berry Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/98046286/98046257" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Music Interviews Rapper and Actor Mos Def Fresh Air December 22, 2004 • The multi-talented Mos Def plays a police officer in the new indie film The Woodsman, also starring Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick, about a pedophile who moves into a suburban neighborhood. He also talks with Terri Gross about his new rap album, The New Danger. Rapper and Actor Mos Def Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/4240725/4240726" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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Talib Kweli and Mos Def of Black Star. Bob Berg/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Bob Berg/Getty Images The Record My American Dream Sounds Like Black Star August 22, 2012 • For Teju Cole, "Respiration," a song about New York City, is the best words in the best order.
All Songs Considered Fall Music Preview September 21, 2009 • On this All Songs we spin some of the albums we're most looking forward to coming out this fall. Hear previews from The Flaming Lips, choral versions of classic Kinks songs, The Swell Season and more. Fall Music Preview Listen · 59:24 59:24 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/113027088/113027087" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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