Talib Kweli and J. Rawls appeared on The Tonight Show to perform “Native Sons” with the help of house band the Roots. The song comes off the pair’s joint LP, The Confidence Of Knowing, out today. Kweli and Rawls dropped “Native Sons” last month. The song pays homage to the …
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Hosted by Chance the Rapper and his close friend and collaborator Vic Mensa, the inaugural Black Star Line Festival — a week of talks, parties, skating, and music in Accra, Ghana — was dreamt of and designed to catalyze physical connectivity, understanding, and eventually, radical movement-making among Black people globally. …
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As he did after the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, Dave Chappelle has once again been tasked with hosting Saturday Night Live for their first post-Election Day episode, this time for the 2022 midterms. Chappelle will bring along Black Star — the duo of Yasiin Bey and Talib Kweli — …
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Talib Kweli has filed a bizarre and utterly unrepentant lawsuit claiming he suffered “emotional distress resulting in illness” after the feminist website Jezebel published a story linking his 2020 Twitter suspension to his reported harassment of a woman online. The article, titled “Talib Kweli’s Harassment Campaign Shows How Unprotected Black …
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When Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey announced that their long-delayed, highly anticipated new album, No Fear of Time, was to be released through Luminary’s podcasting network, the news signaled an impossible-to-ignore, best-of-both-worlds scenario. In choosing to distribute their follow-up to 1998’s Talib Kweli and Mos Def Are Black Star through …
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Black Star‘s first new album in nearly 25 years, No Fear of Time, has arrived, via subscription podcast platform Luminary, and with it comes the hip-hop super duo’s free-to-watch lyric video for “o.G.” On the new song, Yasiin Bey (formerly Mos Def) and Talib Kweli trade verses, with Bey holding …
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