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  Play Kanye West G.O.O.D. Music 'Cruel Summer' Leak Bingo

  August 27, 2012 – Kanye West has been promising to finally drop his G.O.O.D. label's first comp, Cruel Summer for about a year now. Since Mother Nature has a special way with major label rap album release dates, spring turned into summer and summer ultimately turned into September, and 2012's Yeezy-less summer feels especially cruel indeed. …
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  The 8 Best Moments of Brooklyn's Afro-Punk Festival

  June 28, 2010 – Brooklyn's Afro-Punk Festival -- co-founded by James Spooner after his 2003 documentary of the same name, and held this past weekend in Commodore Barry Park -- aims to explore the nexus between hip-hop, punk, and urban black culture. It's the kind of place where folks of all shapes, sizes, and colors can be spotted with Metallica, Joy Division, and Green Day T-shirts. …
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  Kravitz, Legend, Mos Def Headline Gulf Aid Concert

  May 17, 2010 – On Sunday, the day BP inserted a catheter-like pipe inside the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico to help stem the spill, skepticism was in the air at Gulf Aid. …
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  LISTEN: Gorillaz Track with Mos Def

  January 20, 2010 – Blur's short-lived reunion is kaput, so the limelight is shifting from singer Damon Albarn to his virtual band Gorillaz. The animated quartet's third studio album, Plastic Beach, is now confirmed to drop on March 9 -- but its lead single, "Stylo," featuring Mos Def and Bobby Womack, just leaked online. Listen below. "Stylo" finds Gorillaz in their signature dub and trip-rock sound, but now with more flowing soul grooves and vocals. …
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• BlakRoc, 'BlakRoc' (BlakRoc)

  December 4, 2009 – This unlikely jam session between blues revivalists the Black Keys, executive producer Dame Dash, and a smattering of Dash's homies sounds as breezily superfluous as you'd expect. Raekwon spits crack rap ("Stay Off the Fuckin' Flowers"), Mos Def contemplates life ("On the Vista"), and Pharoahe Monch and the RZA flip snappy freestyles ("Dollaz & Sense"). The Keys' Dan Auerbach adds guitar squalls and warbling, tuneless vocals. …
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  Gorillaz Tap Snoop, Mos Def for New Album

  November 30, 2009 – With the Blur reunion behind him, Damon Albarn is returning to his virtual side-project Gorillaz, recruiting Snoop Dogg, Lou Reed, the Bee Gees' Barry Gibb, Mos Def, and more for Plastic Beach, "the most pop record I've ever made," he said. "[It's] sort of about the mythical aspects of Britain," Albarn told the Guardian of the album, the follow-up to 2005's multi-platinum-selling Demon Days, due next year via EMI. …
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  In the Studio: Black Keys and Mos Def!

  September 30, 2009 – From Karen O's star-studded Wild Things soundtrack to Thom Yorke's new band with Flea, it's an awesome year for supergroups and dream collabos. One of the best yet: Blakroc, a new project from blues-rock duo Black Keys, featuring rappers Jim Jones, Q-Tip, Wu-Tang's Raekwon and RZA, Ludacris, and Mos Def! Sessions for their self-titled debut album, due Nov. …
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  The SPIN Interview: Mos Def

  August 1, 2009 – A product of the Brooklyn projects during the 1980s crack era, Mos Def is a hip-hop lifer, despite his frequent forays into Hollywood. And he's unafraid to call out his peers: "Extended exposure to commercial rap has got to have some sort of negative psychological impact." Dante "Mos Def" Smith walks the walk and talks the talk — literally. …
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  Mos Def and Talib Kweli Reunite as Black Star

  June 1, 2009 – When are reunion shows not just about a nostalgic dollar day? When the music and message still have the same vibrant snap of relevance that they did before the artist cashed out. …
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  Mos Def Wanted By Las Vegas Police

  November 6, 2008 – Mos Def is officially a wanted man -- and not just because he's a rapper, actor, and buddies with avant-garde director Michel Gondry (though, that's pretty awesome). …
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