What Is Mos Defs Real Name
The Rapper, Born Dante Terrell Smith, Has Built a Career in Hip-Hop and Film on the Name Mos Def. Why Did Mos Def Change Name? the Rapper Converted to Islam in...
The rapper, born Dante Terrell Smith, has built a career in hip-hop and film on the name Mos Def.
Why did Mos Def change name?
The rapper converted to Islam in his teens. “[I don’t want] to deal [any more] with having any moniker or separation between the self that I see and know myself as,” Mos Def said.
What nationality is Mos Def?
That’s because Mos Def, who was born Dante Smith but now goes by the name Yasiin Bey, is a U.S. citizen who entered South Africa on an American passport, but was trying to leave on a World Passport — a little-known document issued by the World Service Authority in Washington, D.C.
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