The fourth solo album from Mos Def, "The Ecstatic," gives listeners exactly what they expect out of such a title: Elaborate production and the slick rhymes of Def laid over some heavy beats. The ...

"There has to be a change," Mos Def opens his 2009 return to form The Ecstatic (Downtown), "and the only way it's going to be built is with extreme methods." Strong words — except they aren't Mos ...

Always as prolific as he is charismatic, Mos Def played the Highline Ballroom Sunday, January 17 to promote The Ecstatic, his fourth solo album. What’s so unique about Mos Def is that he not only ...

As long as some of the artists named below continue bundling songs together, I'll refuse to believe that the album has followed Elvis into the afterlife. A few were too long, a few were under the ...