Watch Mos Def Play a Singing Superhero on "Yo Gabba Gabba!"

Photo by Ben Clack/Nickelodeon It's not easy to upstage a gang of hyper-cute technicolor monsters on a kids' TV show, but Mos Def pulled it off with his appearance on the Nickelodeon show "Yo Gabba Gabba!" last month. Mos plays his character, a superhero named (seriously) Super Mister Superhero, as a sort of funkateer Elvis impersonator. He teams up with the usual "Yo Gabba Gabba" crew to calm down a nervous baby monster named Starsky. Naturally, they accomplish this feat by singing a song. Prop...

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