Mustafa released his debut album, Dunya, last month, a sincere record about a life that intersects with gang violence, racial violence, and displacement. His writing knocks the cobwebs off of the folk ...

Sudanese-Canadian artist Mustafa tells Jen Long about his journey from poet to songwriter, and the creation of his first full body of work with the likes of Clairo, Rosalía, JID, Nicholas Jaar and ...

Mustafa praised Dua Lipa‘s activism during a listening session for his second album last night (September 25), telling her “it’s our responsibility as artists to hold up a mirror to our world”. The ...

The Toronto-raised singer-songwriter Mustafa's parents emigrated to his hometown from Sudan, eventually settling into a housing project within the city's Regent Park neighborhood — growing up there, ...

Rap is the CNN of the ghetto. An idea espoused by Public Enemy frontman Chuck D since the 1980s, it has since grown into a key hip-hop ideal, defining the music’s relationship with its public.

There is the music within the notes and the music beyond them. A voice hums, fingers on strings strum, and for an album-long moment, the ballads in Dunya by acclaimed artist and poet Mustafa shift ...

In Max Porter's novel Grief Is the Thing with Feathers, a father sits his two sons down to tell them their mother has died. As they sit at the edge of their bed on either side of their now-widowed ...

At Toronto’s Roy Thomson Hall on Thursday, the Sudanese-Canadian singer-songwriter Mustafa talked about his previous headlining concert in his hometown. It was Massey Hall, on Dec. 1, 2021. He ...

The more you listen to Mustafa, you begin to realize that the juxtaposition of the gritty street life he depicts and the gentle music he makes shouldn’t be much of a juxtaposition at all. Half of the ...