Blog: A Grumpy Old Man With A Beard

Yasiin Bey - the artist formerly known as Mos Def - is noodling around with a new series that goes by the name of Top 40 Underdog. To cut to the chase, the series sees Mos - whoops, I mean Yasiin - carrying on hip hop's rich tradition of M.C.s taking a song and putting their own spin on it. Mos (Yasiin! I mean Yasiin!) is focusing his energies on reinterpreting hits, and first off the rank is a rework of Jay-Z and Kanye Wests' 'Ni**as in Paris' . [...]