NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Mos Def on 21 January 2019. Mos Def has been played over 350 times on NTS, first on 11 August 2011. Mos Def's music has been featured on 319 episodes.

Dante Terrell Smith (born December 11, 1973 in Brooklyn, New York, United States), now known by the stage name Yasiin Bey (formerly Mos Def), is a Grammy Award-nominated rapper and actor. He now works under the nom de plum Yasiin Bey, and has performed under the aliases Mighty Mos Def, The Freaky Night Watchman, Boogie Man, Black Dante and Pretty Flaco. He began rapping in a…