Breaking News! Rapper/Actor "Mos Def" Is Retiring His Name - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

Brian Damage · 09-07-2011, 10:20 AM

Mos Def is changing his name (or, more accurately, the name that people know him by, since his real name, Dante Terrell Smith, will stay the same), and he's not going the Puff Daddy, Puffy, P. Diddy, take-your-name-and-try-out-various-variations-on-it route. Instead, he's going for a full-scale overhaul and will begin going by Yasiin in 2012. He told MTV, very seriously: "I’m retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I’m actually doing it. Yasiin. That’s it. Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years, it’s a name that the streets taught me, a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment, and I feel I’ve done quite a bit with that name and it’s time to expand and move on. Also, I didn’t want to have to deal with having any moniker or separation between the self that I see and know myself as."

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Zoneboy · 09-07-2011, 10:43 AM

TheCars1986 · 09-16-2011, 02:01 PM

This is "mos def" not "breaking news".

-STEFFY- · 09-18-2011, 06:12 PM

I never even heard of this guy.

09-07-2011, 10:20 AM	#1
Brian Damage I'm Rich Bitch Forum Icon Join Date: Feb 03, 2002 Location: What Ain't No Country I Ever Heard Of...They Speak English in What? Posts: 63,108	Breaking News! Rapper/Actor "Mos Def" Is Retiring His Name Mos Def is changing his name (or, more accurately, the name that people know him by, since his real name, Dante Terrell Smith, will stay the same), and he's not going the Puff Daddy, Puffy, P. Diddy, take-your-name-and-try-out-various-variations-on-it route. Instead, he's going for a full-scale overhaul and will begin going by Yasiin in 2012. He told MTV, very seriously: "I’m retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I’m actually doing it. Yasiin. That’s it. Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years, it’s a name that the streets taught me, a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment, and I feel I’ve done quite a bit with that name and it’s time to expand and move on. Also, I didn’t want to have to deal with having any moniker or separation between the self that I see and know myself as." http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment...id=partnerfeed
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09-07-2011, 10:43 AM	#2
Zoneboy RIP, I'LL NEVER FORGET YOU :( Moderator Forum Superstar Join Date: Jul 13, 2003 Location: AT HOME WISHING ALL THIS WAS JUST A DREAM AND THAT I'LL WAKE UP FROM THIS NIGHTMARE. Posts: 34,346
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09-16-2011, 02:01 PM	#3
TheCars1986 #VLSKMS Forum Fanatic Join Date: Nov 22, 2008 Location: Maryland Posts: 8,605	This is "mos def" not "breaking news".

09-18-2011, 06:12 PM	#4
-STEFFY- Member Forum Fanatic Join Date: Jul 18, 2007 Location: USA Posts: 14,580	I never even heard of this guy.