Pitchfork

So, like us, you might be wondering to what the title of Mos Def's new album, The New Danger, is referring. Our guess: Overexposure. Danger's fall release earned the rapper his cushiest Billboard chart debut yet, and now he's prepping to embark on a quality-not-quantity December tour that spans from Florida all the way to, uh, St. Louis. Dates:

12-04 St. Louis, MO - The Pageant
12-05 Chicago, IL - House of Blues
12-06 Columbus, OH - Newport Music Hall
12-07 Detroit, MI - Royal Oak Music Theater
12-08 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
12-16 Atlanta, GA - Earthlink Live
12-17 Fort Lauderdale, FL - Revolution
12-18 Orlando, FL - Hard Rock Live

Despondent West Coast fans are advised to hustle out to the multiplex, as that eight-day tour schedule gap exists in part to ensure our hero gets to the premiere of The Woodsman, wherein Mr. Def plays a cop alongside Kyra Sedgwick, Eve, and-- in the starring role of a reformed pedophile-- Kevin Bacon. It opens nationally Christmas Eve, and will undoubtedly make for a carefree, uplifting holiday outing. But unless you're a Baconophile, Mos' finest role yet hits theaters in March: He plays Ford Prefect in the gala big-screen debut of the geek-lit classic The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Sam Rockwell, The Office's Martin Freeman, and Zooey Deschanel also star in the film, and we're so fucking there. Don't forget your towels, kids.

Finally, Mos Def recently showed up on BET's 106 and Park and informally announced that, yes, he and fellow MC Talib Kweli will indeed reunite for another Black Star album, sometime down that yellow brick road-- presumably after he's done promoting Danger, and Kweli is similarly tired of his own recently released album, The Beautiful Struggle. Kweli is currently traipsing about Europe with The Beastie Boys, and he'll close the tour at a Paris show with The Roots. Dates:

12-04 Glasgow, Scotland - SECC *
12-06 Manchester, England - Men Arena *
12-07 London, England - Wembley Arena *
12-09 Berlin, Germany - Max Schmeling Halle *
12-11 Brussels, Belgium - Forest National *
12-12 Darmstadt, Germany - Central Station
12-13 Dusseldorf, Germany - Philipshalle *
12-14 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Heineken Music Hall*
12-15 Hamburg, Germany - Grunspan
12-16 Munich, Germany - Zenith *
12-17 Basel, Switzerland - St. Jakobshalle *
12-18 Milan, Italy - Palamazda *
12-19 Paris, France - Zenith #

* With The Beastie Boys
# With The Roots

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