{"id":205599,"date":"2024-12-12T10:10:28","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T09:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/?p=205599"},"modified":"2024-12-11T18:08:49","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T17:08:49","slug":"yasiin-bey-returns-first-new-solo-music-in-5-years-drops-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/yasiin-bey-returns-first-new-solo-music-in-5-years-drops-this-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Yasiin Bey&#8217;s First Solo Music in 5 Years Drops This Month!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"205600\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/yasiin-bey-returns-first-new-solo-music-in-5-years-drops-this-month\/yasiin-bey-to-debut-first-new-solo-music-in-five-years-this-month\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/yasiin-bey-to-debut-first-new-solo-music-in-five-years-this-month.webp?fit=1200%2C675&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,675\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"yasiin-bey-to-debut-first-new-solo-music-in-five-years-this-month\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/yasiin-bey-to-debut-first-new-solo-music-in-five-years-this-month.webp?fit=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-205600\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/yasiin-bey-to-debut-first-new-solo-music-in-five-years-this-month.webp?resize=540%2C304&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/yasiin-bey-to-debut-first-new-solo-music-in-five-years-this-month.webp?resize=540%2C304&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/yasiin-bey-to-debut-first-new-solo-music-in-five-years-this-month.webp?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/yasiin-bey-to-debut-first-new-solo-music-in-five-years-this-month.webp?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/yasiin-bey-to-debut-first-new-solo-music-in-five-years-this-month.webp?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yasiin Bey (formerly Mos Def) will debut new solo material on December 15 via a livestream performance, Money Christmas. Streaming on Bandcamp at 2 p.m. EST for $7.99, the event features artwork by Spanish-Moroccan artist Anuar Khalifi, depicting Osama bin Laden as Santa Claus.<\/p>\n<p>The performance won\u2019t hit traditional streaming platforms; instead, mastered audio, video, and merch will be available on Bandcamp 24\u201348 hours after the livestream, with vinyl to follow.<\/p>\n<p>Money Christmas marks the first of multiple upcoming releases aiming to strengthen fan connections through integrated music, art, and video. Bey\u2019s history of experimental rollouts includes Negus (2019), a museum-only album, and Black Star\u2019s No Fear of Time (2022), initially exclusive to Luminary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yasiin Bey (formerly Mos Def) will debut new solo material on December 15 via a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-Ru7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}