Mos might have to get used to South African living… Mos Def Barred From Returning To The US Due To Unspecified Immigration Issues What immigration issues could a United States-born citizen have? Something in the milk ain’t quite clean. NY Daily News reports: You really can’t go home again. Yasiin Bey, the artist formerly known Mos Def, has canceled his U.S. tour after being denied entry into the country of his birth. The “Mathematics” rapper, who has been living in South Africa for the past year, has been barred by “immigration/legal issues,” according to a statement on the Boston Together Music Festival site flagged by London’s The Guardian. It’s not immediately clear what the issues keeping out the Brooklyn-born Bey, 40. But in recent years he has been increasingly critical of U.S. policies. Last July, Bey teamed with the human rights group Reprieve to reenact a force-feeding such as the ones endured by hunger strikes jailed in Guantanamo Bay. Bey told Rolling Stone Magazine in March that he had found a peace in South Africa that he couldn’t find in the country he once called home. “I lived in Brooklyn 33 years of my life. I thought I’d be buried in that place,” he told the magazine. “Around seven years ago, I was like, you know, ‘I gotta go, I gotta leave.’ It’s very hard to leave. And I lived in a lot of places. Central America. North America. Europe for a while. “And I came to Cape Town in 2009, and it just hit me. I was like, ‘Yeah.’ I know when a good vibe gets to you. And, you know, I thought about this place every day from when I left. I was like, ‘I’m comin’ back.’” “For a guy like me, who had five or six generations not just in America but in one town in America, to leave America, things gotta be not so good with America,” he added. Could these “mystery issues” keeping him out be his very public criticism of the US government? Hmmm…
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Locked Out Abroad: Mos Def (Yasiin Bey) Not Allowed To Re-Enter USA Due To Immigration Issues
