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Black Star made another career milestone on SNL. Earlier this year, the duo of Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey released their second album No Fear of Time on Luminary, which was their first piece of new music in 24 years after their seminal album Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star in 1998. Talib and […]

Dave Chappelle is hosting SNL tonight, regardless of the news cycle. After the announcement that Chappelle would be hosting SNL for the third time with Black Star as his musical guest, a report circulated that SNL writers were staging a boycott ahead of the live episode. However, a rep for Chappelle told CNN in a […]

Ahead of their performance on Saturday Night Live this weekend, Black Star have shared the music video for their Madlib-produced track “So Be It.” The black-and-white video for the track shows the two reuniting for a recent string of concerts in support of their second album No Fear of Time, which they finally shared after over two […]

The episode of Drink Champs featuring Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey, collectively known as Black Star, as well as Dave Chappelle, has finally arrived.  According to Page Six, the Drink Champs website teased the arrival of the episode in late May, but it was ultimately shelved at the request of the comedian and his team. Black Star stopped by […]

It’s been nearly 24 years since legendary hip-hop duo Black Star released their first—and only—collaborative album, and while a follow-up has been teased several times over the last few years, things may finally be coming to fruition this time.   Talib Kweli took to Instagram over the weekend to share an update on the duo’s long-awaited followup […]

Dave Chappelle, fresh off reviving his habit of publicly nailing the Radiohead classic “Creep,” discusses the likelihood of an apology to Candace Owens in a new episode of his recently launched podcast with Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey. At the top of the episode, which also features Jon Stewart, Chappelle brought the topic of an Owens […]

Once a year, the very finest in the realms of music, fashion, film, and visual arts converge in the City of Gold. Dubai, as you know, is a place filled with opulence and out-of-the-box occurrences. It is also home to one of the greatest lifestyle and culture festivals in the world, Sole DXB. Just shy of ten […]