From the most hedonistically concerned club hopper, to the most obsessively analytical college kid, and everyone else in between, Brooklyn’s Talib Kweli is respected and admired. “Get By,” from 2002’s ...

I come from a place that is, and has been for centuries, plagued by racism. Being an American, I can hear some people saying, “You’re going to have to narrow it down, Chris.” Fair enough. American ...

On his seminal hit Get By, Talib Kweli rhymed that he could paint a picture with the pen like Norman Mailer. It s no coincidence that the Brooklyn-born MC name-checked the 84 year-old novelist and ...

In 2002, after a 1998 release with fellow Brooklyn rapper Mos Def as Blackstar and one with producer Hi-Tek as Reflection Eternal in 2000, Talib Kweli dropped his first album on his own two called ...

A new “Black Star” album is definitely on the way according to Talib. But the rappers are planning an innovative way to release the album. Rapper Yasiin Bey has urged fans to quit pestering him about ...

Talib Kweli responded to Kanye’s claim that he posing as a Backpack Rapper, “Since when did we celebrate posers in Hip-Hop?” Talib Kweli has responded once again to Kanye West’s “Drink Champs” ...