Snoop Dogg's New Protege: Buzz Aldrin!?!

WTF? Snoop, Talib Kweli, and Soulja Boy big-up the moonwalking astronaut in the recording studio. Watch video here!
Snoop Dogg / Buzz Aldrin

Rapper Snoop Dogg knows how to get high. But neither he nor any of his usual collaborators have been higher than his new partner-in-rhyme.

Or older, for that matter. It's 79-year-old astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who, as a lunar module pilot on famed spacecraft Apollo 11, has the distinction of being the second person to walk on the moon.

Mos Def and Talib Kweli Reunite as Black Star

SPIN's Charles Aaron on the hip-hop duo's comeback set in NYC.
Mos Def / Photo by Kathryn Yu

When are reunion shows not just about a nostalgic dollar day?

Nas Unveils Summer Tour

Hip-hop legend to span the U.S. with Talib Kweli in between appearances on the Rock the Bells tour, in support of new, untitled album.

Who? Born Nasir Jones, Queensbridge, New York's hip-hop maven Nas -- a recent Spin interviewee and Artist of the Day subject -- is best known for his 1994 classic, Illmatic, as well as other career-defining records like God’s Son and Street’s Disciple

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