Roy Ayers' music has been sampled countless times by artists including Mary J. Blige, Common, and Tyler, The Creator.

Its release coincided with a golden era for the Soulquarians—a collective that included D’Angelo, Erykah Badu, Common, The Roots, Talib Kweli, Mos Def ... brings their lyrics to life.

Roy Ayers was a virtuoso jazz vibraphone player and multi-instrumentalist, but he was also able, in the 1970s, to bring jazz ...

“Black Radio” featuring freestyle verses from Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def). Named after the black box that records all the information from a plane crash, “Black Radio” serves as ...

Yasiin Bey—formerly known as Mos Def—unleashed sharp criticism on the modern music industry, likening its greed to the cartoon tycoon Scrooge McDuck. In a no-holds-barred interview with The ...

By Angel Diaz Yasiin Bey, formerly known as Mos Def, has a new album with The Alchemist on the way called Forensics, but that doesn’t mean he’s still playing the game. The Brooklyn MC and ...

In Everybody Loves The Sunshine, Roy Ayers uses six of the seven notes in F# Dorian mode as roots for fourths chords: F-sharp, A, B, C-sharp, D-sharp and E. Three of the resulting minor 11th chords ...