Rappers with Mos Def's reputation and charisma aren't supposed to wait five years between albums, but the Brooklyn native has been legitimately distracted. He can act -- and Hollywood adores him for ...

Before you listen to The New Danger, pop in Mos Def's 1999 release Black On Both Sides first. Yeah, it's probably the greatest hip-hop album of all time. With melodic poetry in "Mathematics," ...

Mos Def has always known that it's kinda dangerous -- literally, physically -- to be an MC, but that awareness never kept him from the task of producing sharp, illuminating hip-hop. For the past few ...