Mos Def Plans To Retire His Name (Video)

"I'm retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I'm actually doing it. Yasiin. That's it," he revealed. "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 any separation between the self that I see and know myself as." (Sucker Free)