Showing posts with label mos def. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mos def. Show all posts

Sunday, May 03, 2020

This Week in Genre History: 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' Finally Comes to the Big Screen


Almost 30 years after it first debuted on radio, Douglas Adams' tale of an everyman who goes traveling across the galaxy came to theaters. Over at SyFy, I look back at the movie's making -- and how it ended up being a commercial disappointment.

Friday, May 24, 2019

Kids See Ghosts (featuring Yasiin Bey) - "Kids See Ghosts"

I had a chat with someone the other day here at Cannes about Kanye, and we were both talking about how much we liked Kids See Ghosts. So now this song is stuck in my head again.


Friday, February 16, 2018

Mos Def - "May-December"

Happy Presidents' Day Weekend.


Friday, February 13, 2015

Mos Def - "Twilite Speedball"

Mos Def hasn't put out a solo album since The Ecstatic, one of 2009's best records. Since then, he has changed his name to Yasiin Bey and hasn't done a ton of recording or acting. But last year, he resurfaced, sorta, when a snippet from the track "Twilite Speedball" popped up in an ad for the Cosmopolitan hotel in Las Vegas. if you find the music intoxicating, introduce yourself to the song.