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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 […]
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 […]
Yasiin Bey has entered the chat. The Brooklyn-born artist, formerly known as Mos Def, has issued an apparent response to Kanye West’s “white lives matter” tee, which he unveiled in Paris earlier this week. Bey shared a series of Instagram photos in which he donned a shirt that featured the controversial slogan; however, in his design, the “v” […]
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 […]
Yasiin Bey will return to the silver screen in a forthcoming biopic about the jazz legend Thelonious Monk. Bey will play the title role in Thelonious, which is slated to start up production in the summer of 2022. Jupiter Rising Film co-founders Alberto Marzan and Peter Lord Moreland announced Wednesday that Bey has signed on to play the lead role. […]
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 […]
Dave Chappelle’s new Midnight Miracle podcast with Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey is launching soon. The new podcast series, which will be available on the Luminary channel on Apple Podcasts when the platform makes its global debut in May, was recorded during the comedian’s 2020 “summer camp” sessions in Ohio. On Monday, Luminary gave fans […]
On Sunday the 22nd annual Black August Hip Hop Benefit Concert is taking place in virtual form. As you can gage from the headline, you can stream that concert right here. It’s scheduled to begin at 6:58 p.m. ET, which may be the past or present depending on when you clicked. Here’s the feed: Set to headline the […]
Yasiin Bey took an innovative approach to his “Bey Ye” set on Sunday at the Regent Theater in Los Angeles, performing the lyrics from his own songs over Kanye West beats. The idea isn’t quite the stretch for Yasiin, who was once an artist on West’s G.O.O.D. Music label. The two have been collaborating since The College Dropout, and Yasiin popped […]
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