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Alana Wyatt-Smith is writing a "tell all" book, and it's already getting some buzz. Alana used to be married to Mos Def.
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 of OutKast, RZA, the reunited Slum Village, K'Naan and many more.
Tickets are still on sale...
- Mos Def — The Ecstatic (chartattack.com)
- mVids - Mos Def CASA BEY (hulu.com)
- KMFDM, Snow Patrol, Mos Def, Tracy Chapman, other tickets (brooklynvegan.com)
Mos Def returns from long strange
trip with excitingly coherent new album
At this point, you could be forgiven
for knowing Mos Def as an actor rather than a musician. His name was
synonymous with the late '90s’ resurgence of politically pugnacious
hip-hop, but after his equally era-defining label, Rawkus Records,
was absorbed into Interscope, Mos went mainstream as a thespian and
plumbed new depths of self-indulgent awfulness as a musician...
From pastemagazine.com
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- Universal Independent Arm Fontana Tops Charts With Mos Def ... (news.google.com)
- Mos Def releases album on t-shirt (sowetan.co.za)
- Mos Def Releases Album On T-Shirt (search.live.com)
Following the release of 1999’s Black On Both Sides, Mos Def fell prey to Ice Cube syndrome: The more money his movies made, the less interested he became in creating great music. 2004’s The New Danger was a paranoid, self-indulgent monster that seemed to betray the voluminous promise of Black Star and his solo debut, while 2006’s True Magic barely got a release. The expectations greeting each new album have gone from sky-high to ground-level...
From theonion.com
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- Mos Def Proposes “The Battle of New Orleans” (technorati.com)
- Video: Mos Def Interview w/ Angie Martinez (technorati.com)
Mos Def gets ready for the beach (Black Star @ Nokia Theater) (more by Tim Griffin) The lineup for this summer's Highline Ballroom/AEG-produced events on Governors Island has been expanded. We already mentioned the big B-52s and Erykah Badu shows....
From brooklynvegan.com
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- Music Ally | Blog Archive » Mos Def's digital music t-shirt may ... (blogsearch.google.com)
PopMattersOctober - December 1999: Mos Def to Jay-ZPopMattersBy PopMatters Staff As the cornerstone of the once-mighty underground hip-hop empire that was Rawkus Records, Mos Def's wildly diverse yet smoothly cohesive ...and more »
From news.google.com
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- October - December 1999: Mos Def to Jay-Z (popmatters.com)
Mos Def's record sales for The Ecstatic are not record sales, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Here's the deal: fans can purchase a t-shirt depicting the album cover for Mos Def's new album, The Ecstatic, and each shirt comes with a download code for a free copy of the album...read more
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From nowpublic.com
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His Geffen years were lame and movies like 'Be Kind Rewind' didn't make him much of an actor. What's so great about Mos Def? 'The Ecstatic' is what. 'The Ecstatic' finds Def's groove back in every-which-way. He nestles into a crooning soft spot on ...
From search.live.com
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- Mos Def's The Ecstatic: The T-Shirt (pastemagazine.com)
MOS DEF The Ecstatic Downtown ½ It may seem like ages ago, but Mos Def was once known for his music. As one of the faces of the now-defunct Rawkus records, Mos helped bring underground, socially conscience hip-hop to the spotlight at the peak of mainstream excessiveness and flashiness. But while he focused on his acting career in the 2000s, the music suffered with two sloppy, meandering albums that left much to be desired (including album...
From miamiherald.com
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- Mos Def - The Ecstatic (news.google.com)
On Friday, we thought that Mos Def's experiment with selling an album via a t-shirt (whereby if you bought the t-shirt, you got to download the album) was a pretty cool idea. What seemed even cooler was the claim that Nielsen Soundscan would count each t-shirt sale as an album sale. However, Soundscan has come out claiming this simply is not true:
"Nielsen Soundscan knows nothing about this and without knowing more, we have no intention of...
From techdirt.com
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- On Second Thought, SoundScan Claims Mos Def T-Shirt Doesn't Count As... (search.live.com)
The album is definitely fire. That's a compliment. Short songs, no annoying choruses. Between this and the DOOM album, that's two nice gems in real MC'ing, back in the day style. And the Clipse should be releasing their new album eventually, which is also sort of exciting.
As far as the shirt goes, not sure about the tracklist/download code idea...the front cover image is cool though. ChipSuey
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