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Rock The Bells Rocked By Security

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By Pete Richards (CHARTattack) July 6, 2009 4:27 pm
Rock The Bells '09 was a nine-hour event that brought some of hip-hop's biggest icons to the Molson Amphitheatre on a gorgeous day to be outside. The sun was shining. The music was good. Funny scents wafted through the air. And security was continually looking for new guests to throw out. Over-zealous security tried to spoil it for some....
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Mos Def — The Ecstatic

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By Ian Gormely (CHARTattack) July 2, 2009 3:27 pm
A decade and some change on from his classic debut, Black On Both Sides, Mos Def has become known more for his acting chops than his ability to drop rhymes. Chalk that up to a pair of dodgy-at-best follow ups and uninspired guest verses on tracks like "Drunk And Hot Girls" from Kanye West's Graduation. But The Ecstatic should...
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Mos Def — True Magic

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) January 3, 2007 8:31 pm
The reason David Blaine became so famous as a magician was his unflappable focus. When he takes on a challenge, he lives, breathes and thinks of nothing but. Mos Def's True Magic suffers from the opposite. After a highly panned experimentation with rock-rap, Mos returns to his Black On Both Sides roots for this buried-in-the-holiday-rush release....
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Mos Def — The New Danger

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By Matt Semansky (CHARTattack) November 9, 2004 2:17 pm
The latest release from Mos Def is a Jekyll-and-Hyde affair. For the first third of the record, the Brooklyn MC and his backup band seem to have been kidnapped by Fred Durst and forced at gunpoint to load tracks with tired nu metal riffs. However, the disc takes a turn for the better with the one-two punch of the bluesy "Bedstuy: Parade...
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Black Star to release new album in 2012

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By Mike Searle (CHARTattack) November 4, 2011 2:54 pm
Were you first in line to buy tickets for the Black Star reunion tour? Well here's something even more exciting:The hip-hop collaboration of famed rappers Talib Kweli and Mos Def will be coming out with some new music. In a recent interview with MTV, Kweli let the cat out of the bag, revealing that he and Mos Def are busy working on a new album...
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I Read The News Today... For Aug. 27, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) August 27, 2010 12:19 pm
Everybody Dance Now: Songs From Hamilton Volume 5, a compilation featuring some songs by Hamilton, Ont. artists like Young Rival, Caribou, Arkells, Junior Boys and others, will be released in late September to coincide with the C+C Music Festival at this year's Hamilton Supercrawl. —Facebook The Meligrove Band will release a new album...
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The Ten Funniest Dudes In Rock

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By Barry Taylor (CHARTattack) January 15, 2010 12:47 pm
Stand up comedy and rock 'n' roll are a lot alike. George Carlin was raging against the machine long before Zack De La Rocha and Tom Morello weren't doing what you told them. Mitch Hedberg rocked the mic with an original delivery that was stripped down and raw, much like a punk rock band out of Queens, N.Y. Just as stand up comedians can...
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Mos Def Featuring Talib Kweli — "History"

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By CHARTattack Staff January 4, 2010 3:10 pm
Mos Def and Talib Kweli — who were once collectively known as Black Star — reunite on Mos Def's "History." The clip features Mos Def and Kweli starring in their own movie, which references Muhammad Ali. "History" appears on The Ecstatic, which is out now.
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Mos Def — "Supermagic"

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By CHARTattack Staff December 10, 2009 1:34 pm
Here's Mos Def's video for "Supermagic." The track can be found on The Ecstatic, which is out now. Multiple Mos Defs = hypnotic.
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Blakroc (Black Keys Hip-Hop Project) Featuring Mos Def And Jim Jones — "Ain't Nothing Like You"

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By CHARTattack Staff November 9, 2009 5:49 pm
Here's the video for Blakroc's "Ain't Nothing Like You." Blakroc is The Black Keys' hip-hop project, and this video, shot in the studio, features guest appearances from Mos Def and Jim Jones. Surprisingly, Dan Auerbach is beardless! How did this happen?! "Ain't Nothing Like You" will appear on Blakroc's debut album, due out...
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Pumping: Mos Def — Black On Both Sides

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By The Stereo (CHARTattack) July 10, 2009 12:25 pm
This is still undisputably Mos' best album (unless you count his Black Star collab with Talib Kweli). It's a real shame he fell off for a while there, because there's some great beats and rhymes on this one, and it focuses on holding those who are effing up the world accountable. It's also sort of a shame it preceded the Bush administration, if...
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Rock The Bells At Molson Amphitheatre

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Mos Def Added To Rock The Bells

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) July 3, 2009 1:24 pm
Mos Def has been added to the lineup for the Toronto Rock The Bells stop, and Common is no longer able to play because he's busy shooting a film. Mos Def will fly in direct to Toronto from the Montreux Jazz Festival. The tour's Toronto stop takes place at the Molson Amphitheatre on Sunday and features performances from Nas, Damian Marley, Big Boi...
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Pumping: Mos Def — The Ecstatic

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By The Stereo (CHARTattack) June 9, 2009 1:39 pm
It's no Black On Both Sides, but this is his best since then, and thankfully he's done away with the horrid rap-rock that marked The New Danger. Perhaps he got a little bit too distracted with that acting career of his.
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Mos Def Loves Fucked Up

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) May 13, 2009 11:42 am
Rapper Mos Def is a big Fucked Up fan. Mos Def (real name Dante Terrell Smith) recently wrote an article for the New York Times about what he's listening to, and though the article couldn't name Fucked Up — the photo caption states "band with an unprintable name" — it refers to their recently released The Chemistry Of Common Life....
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America's Mos Wanted

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) November 6, 2008 11:56 am
An arrest warrant has been issued for rapper Mos Def. Def (real name Dante Terrell Smith) could face charges of felony robbery and malicious destruction of private property stemming from an incident which allegedly happened in August. According to police, Def got into a fight with photographer Volker Corell during the Men's Apparel And...
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A Tribe Called Quest, Nas, Mos Def And Others To Rock The Bells This Summer

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) April 25, 2008 3:30 pm
If you long to return to the mid-'90s, when alternative rap ruled the hip-hop airwaves, don't go running for Marty McFly and his Delorean just yet. Head for a stop on the Rock The Bells tour instead. The festival will make Canadian stops in Toronto on July 20 and Vancouver on Aug. 30. Venues haven't been confirmed yet. The reunited A Tribe...
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With Nothing Up Their Sleeves, Mos Def And Geffen Make Album Disappear

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By Josh Finkelman (CHARTattack) January 10, 2007 5:30 pm
Did Geffen Records release Mos Def's third album, Tru3 Magic, on Dec. 29 or not? According to the label, uh, sort of. If you were one of the people who bought a copy of the MC's newest album, what you purchased wasn't an official "release." What it was, according to label representatives, was a "limited edition pre-release,...
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Better Late Than Never For New Mos Def Album

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By CHARTattack Staff December 5, 2006 5:30 pm
Mos Def's Tru3 Magic will arrive three months after it was first scheduled to, but still in time for last-minute Christmas shoppers. Geffen will release the conscious hip-hop artist's third solo album on Dec. 19 without "Boogie Man," a track that came out in August and was expected to be on the LP. The album will feature production by...
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Mos Def Arrested Outside MTV Video Music Awards

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By CHARTattack Staff September 1, 2006 5:00 pm
While some artists were inside Radio City Music Hall receiving moon man statuettes at the MTV Video Music Awards on Thursday night, Mos Def was outside the venue being arrested for disorderly conduct. The rapper and a crew pulled up in front of the hall on a flatbed truck around 10 p.m. to perform "Katrina Clap," a song that...
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