Yasiin Bey Surprise-Releases Manic New Song, 'Basquiat Ghostwriter'

Yasiin Bey, the rapper and actor formerly known as Mos Def, has surprise-released an experimental new track, “Basquiat Ghostwriter,” inspired by police brutality and the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat. The track finds Bey weaving abstract imagery over noise samples, jazz-punk drums and whirring synthesizers – a sonic collage assembled from recordings made…