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 ...

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 ...

Why They Are Dope: Few rap acts have left fans clamoring for more like Black Star. Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey (better known as Mos Def) linked up after they’d both found themselves signed to the late, ...

On this day, Sept. 29, in hip-hop history... Black Star literally announced their arrival with "Definition," a free-wheeling, Hi-Tek-produced anti-violence anthem that rang through loud and clear ...

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 ...

Earlier this year, Kanye West’s The College Dropoutproved that hip-hop moralizing didn’t have to be dull-or, for that matter, particularly moral. On “Get Em High,” Kanye enlisted the straitlaced Talib ...

For hip-hop fans, the significance of 1998 needs little explanation thanks to landmark works by Lauryn Hill, Outkast, Jay-Z, DMX, Big Pun, the Neptunes, the Cash Money and No Limit collectives, and ...

Last night (September 22), Mos Def (a.k.a. Yasiin Bey) and Talib Kweli, known as the legendary duo Black Star performed at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles, CA. The duo united as part of the Lyricist ...

During a DJ set In February, Yasiin Bey revealed new music from Black Star, his hip-hop duo with Talib Kweli, was coming and implied that Madlib was also attached: “New Black Star with Madlib, Talib ...

Common, Kanye West, Mos Def and Talib Kweli have answered a call from Kevin Powell and have helped the journalist/ activist transport an assortment of goods directly to victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Though the audience at the Breed Love Odyssey tour Friday was as diverse as a Benetton ad, I still can't drive with the windows down through Orange County while listening to Kanye West without getting ...

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 ...