Mos Def Retiring his Stage Name 'Mos Def'

Born as Dante Smith, rap icon Mos Def said to MTV the other day that he will retire the 'Mos Def' name and will adopt 'Yasiin' in 2012.

“Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years, it’s a name that the streets taught me,” Mos Def said. “(It’s) a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and my environment, and I feel like I’ve done quite a bit with that name and it’s time to expand and move on. Also, I don’t want to deal with having any moniker, any separation between the self that I see and (what people refer to me as).”

Seems kinda strange to me, but this dude is pretty strange, like he's on some Diddy type shit. KID CAN SPIT THOUGH.