Producer and fellow Def Poet Al Be Back revealed he would be producing on the album as well. The same year, Maria took Mos to court over unpaid child support, claiming that he was $2,000 short of the $10,000 h was required to pay. Am 15. He has been in four celebrity relationships averaging approximately 8.2 years each. He then married model Alana Wyatt in 2005, but the couple separated shortly after. After Black on Both Sides, its his most essential album and he sounds much hungrier and more passionate than on his past two albums. Lucas in The Woodsman. The shoes were released to Foot Locker stores on August 1, 2009 in very limited amounts. All clothing items will be sold in select stores located around the U.S. and almost exclusively on the UNDRCRWN website. Fresh out of high school Mos Def earned a role on the short-lived 1994 TV show The Cosby Mysteries. Yasiin Bey is a 49 year old American Rapper. He claims that hes been known to friends and family as Yasiin since 1999 but decided to change it in the public sphere because he felt Mos Def was becoming a brand name, not a person. However, Black Star was never a consistent project, and both artists always had their own respective solo careers outside of the group. He also appeared in A Free Man of Color, John Guare's play at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre. The rapper has paid roughly $8000 a month since the order was issued, but said Sadly, the success was tainted by his decision to have a legal separation in 2006 from his wife Maria Yepes who has given him two children during their ten-year marriage. It became a classic of the hip-hop underground. He has at least two daughters with his ex-wife Maria Yepes named Jauhara and Chandani Smith. [13], In 1996, Bey emerged as a solo artist and worked with De La Soul and Da Bush Babees, before he released his own first single, "Universal Magnetic" in 1997. His hip hop career began in 1994, alongside his siblings in the short-lived rap group Urban Thermo Dynamics (UTD), after which they appeared on albums by Da Bush Babees and De La Soul. The project had a more global sound that borrowed from international genres like Latin, afrobeat, Eurodance, and Arabic music. Maria Yepes and Yasiin Bey are divorced.. About. (sources: notablebiographies.com, buddytv.com,aceshowbiz.com, wikipedia.org), Hip Hop Scriptures, New York, NY 10032, United States. Just a year later, Mos Def released a solo album, Black on Both Sides, which had a jazzy, R&B flavor. He saw what his future would hold if he got too deeply entrenched in the street lifestyle around him, so he decided early on to try to better himself and find a brighter path.