Chris is a Senior News Writer for Collider. He can be found in an IMAX screen, with his eyes watering and his ears bleeding for his own pleasure. He joined the news team in 2022 and accidentally fell ...

A beloved 2003 thriller lauded as "slick" and "stupendous" has arrived on Prime Video. Starring Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Edward Norton, and Jason Statham, The Italian Job follows a group of ...

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Gorillaz embark on yet another globetrotting adventure on “Damascus,” the animated outfit’s new single with Yasiin Bey (formerly Mos Def) and celebrated Syrian singer Omar Souleyman. “Damascus” gets ...

Gorillaz are releasing a new album, The Mountain, on February 27, 2026 via KONG, the band’s own label. Now they have shared its fourth single, “Damascus,” which features Omar Souleyman and Yasiin Bey ...

On this date in 1999, Brooklyn lyricist, actor, and social activist Yasiin Bey—who the Hip Hop world first knew as Mos Def—released his debut solo album Black On Both Sides on the Rawkus/Columbia ...

Laila is carving her own lane in music, but not without a word of caution from her father Mos Def. In a recently uploaded interview with Nessa on Hot 97, the 19-year-old singer-songwriter was asked ...

On this day in hip hop history, 27 years ago, Mos Def and Talib Kweli joined forces to release their iconic debut album Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star on Rawkus Records — a landmark project that ...

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Before you listen to The New Danger, pop in Mos Def's 1999 release Black On Both Sides first. Yeah, it's probably the greatest hip-hop album of all time. With melodic poetry in "Mathematics," ...

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