When Uproxx’s People’s Party with Talib Kweli descended on the Blue Note Jazz Club in February, we expected some excitement. There was cultural icon Jon Stewart rocking up to the venue with no team, no security, and no publicists to sit down with Kweli for a sprawling interview. There was Jim Jones fully in his … Read more
Talib Kweli, Madlib, and Diani have dropped their new music video for the “Air Quotes” collab. The free-flowing song finds them reflecting on the current state of the rap industry. “Most rappers cowards cuz they scared to be conscious / They only care about they pockets / This is not a popularity contest,” Kweli raps … Read more
Uproxx/Getty Uproxx has just concluded a two-week run of People’s Party with Talib Kweli at New York’s legendary Blue Note Jazz Club (home to greats like Dizzy Gillespie, Tito Puente, Robert Glasper and so many more) and will begin rolling out episodes this week. The marathon run saw Kweli linking up with all sorts of … Read more
Talib Kweli and Madlib have announced that they are reuniting for a sequel to one of their most beloved projects. Liberation 2, due March 6, will be released through the Luminary podcast network, echoing the nontraditional release of the original in 2007. The album is set to feature collaborations with Q-Tip, Roc Marciano, and Westside … Read more
Russell Peters jumped on People’s Party with Talib Kweli this week, primed to tell amazing stories about his life on and off the stage. For years, Peters has made millions laugh while learning a bit about themselves with his unique brand of comedy. Beyond the celebrity though, he’s a man who has a deep reverence … Read more
On last week’s episode of People’s Party with Talib Kweli, Kweli and guest Ali Shaheed Muhammad of A Tribe Called Quest have a conversation about the day they first met. Kweli even shares a photo he took from that day with Kweli, Ali, and Jarobi as he tells the story of the encounter. Kweli was … Read more
Getty Image It was well over two decades ago that Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey (then known as Mos Def) declared, “Black Star keep shinin’.” However, in the intervening years, it seemed that Black Star had long since burned out. The two respected rappers would offer glimmers of hope, but for most, their reunion seemed … Read more
Niko Is has linked up with Talib Kweli, MidaZ the Beast, A.L. Punchline, and Wordsworth for a lyrical, hard-hitting, classic hip-hop posse cut titled “Live From The Blue Note.” Take “classic” with a grain of salt though, while this harkens back to a golden age of hip-hop group cuts, “Live” is anything but traditional. The … Read more
Getty Image The collaboration between Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey, the artist formerly known as Mos Def, has been one of the most formative albums in hip-hop history. Referred to colloquially as “Black Star,” the supergroup’s sole album together, Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star, came out over twenty years ago now in … Read more