In an intense back-and-forth on Twitter back in April, Talib Kweli and Diabolic exchanged disses. Diabolic blasted the Black Star rapper over his analysis of the question, “If a white rapper asks a black rapper if he’s pro black racist or both, he’s saying I’m racist for being problack,” which was a response to Wu-Tang rapper Remedy. Remedy, who is White, called Kweli racist.
Diabolic thundered in and said Kweli needed to check himself for making generalizations about white rappers.
Kweli wrote a piece on Cuepoint called “When ‘White Fragility’ Affects Rappers: The true tale of why Remedy and Diabolic need to have several seats” where he defends the Black voice of Hip Hop against White rappers who he says are too sensitive to handle the tension.
Now, Diabolic has taken to wax to address the beef on a track called “IneKwelity,” a play off “inequality.” In the four-and-a-half minute song that plays off Black Star’s “Definition,” he blasts Kweli for being an Internet thug.
“Not only do you generalize / You lie in general / Doubt my potential ’cause my skin is white / Shit, if writing’s your superpower / Making sense is kryptonite / But don’t doubt the fact I’ll show up at your crib tonight and hit you with a right for each thing you wrote I didn’t like,” he raps.
He also says Kweli’s career is dead, contrasting the accusations of white rappers as culture vultures to the metaphorical vultures surrounding his music.
Kweli went back to Twitter to call the diss track “basura,” which is “trash” in Spanish. He also said Diabolic “ethered himself,” and claimed he would “rap over one of his hits but he ain’t got none” with laughing emojis.
Kweli’s fans chime in saying they weren’t impressed by the track. Kweli quotes one who says that the song would be better as a jingle for a diapers advertisement, calling the rapper “diaperbolic.”
The original conversation:
If I was Kweli I wouldn’t even entertain that devil. Seems like he’s doing what devil’s do best, starting up some bullshit. Why not discuss the reparations movement for black Americans Diobolic? ($ilence, crickets) oh shit did I just go there? Fuck wu for signing that devil in the first place!
Black reparations? LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL. That is the dumbest, most ignorant lazy black America race bating BS ever, other than black lives matter. I think we should give the native Americans a check first. We didn’t take them to a country without Ebola where you wont get your arms chopped off. LOL. So the Christians should get reparations from the Hebrews, who then should give repetitions back to the Hebrews, after we all receive reparations from the blacks for what the Pharos dos to everyone? Idiot. Please buy a gun and shoot someone who thinks like you do.
Devils? LOL. The “gods” can’t afford child support and are all killing each other over Nike. LOLOLOL
It’s sad because diabolic first album was fire lol don’t know what the fk happened since then..
Shut uo white boy
Is what you should try to say to the police before they shoot you. 🙂
Is what you should try to say to the police before they shoot you. 🙂
Bruz, quit the wak pedigree black bitching… Ya welfare check just came in! Go buy some apache from the choco street corner. Get messy… That’s all you dogs do after all 😉
Twadweeb Kwawee always was Mos Def’s hype man. Dude was always saying stupid shit. Trying to act all super black. Any pro black or pro white talk is straight racism. Ridiculous.
Anytime this moron TwatDweeb Skwalee farts out his mouth we have the pleasure of seeing all kinds of racist “black” people chime in and say dumb shit. If you are black and racist towards other people, you are the most ignorant hypocritical idiot on earth. Either you want to END racism, or you are all for it. Idiots. What about the Native Anericans? The Latinos? You don’t care at all about them, right? Clowns. Hip-Hop is supposed to bring people together. Stop acting like victims, go to school and get a job. That shit is dead in 2016. Get with the times. BTW. Black lives matter is a joke. Lives matter. Not just black lives. Dummies.
What Am I hating on today? I said he actually had a career unlike Diabolic, I’m not very jealous of a dork on twitter all day, losing fans by the day and being a cpl hundred grand in debt to the IRS
You are 100% on point with your analysis of Twaweeb IMO. BTW. He is all “Black Power” but check out one of his shows. Looks like a line for coffe at a a Starbucks. Is this Sam Sneed the DJ from SLC?
This is why I don’t listen to white rappers. They’re corny and they think they can be in our culture and not respect us. Who is this dude anyway? lol White dudes and their fragile egos.
They think they can be in our culture and not respect us? LOL. Funny shit. Your culture would be selling less than Latin music if it wasn’t for white america buying albums. People like The Beastie Boys and Eminem brought fans to Hip-Hop that never would have accepted your black ass.
They think they can be in our culture and not respect us? LOL. Funny shit. Your culture would be selling less than Latin music if it wasn’t for white america buying albums. People like The Beastie Boys and Eminem brought fans to Hip-Hop that never would have accepted your black ass.
no, our culture was doing just fine without Whites. You’re not needed for our success. We don’t care about your acceptance. Nice try though.
Racist as mother fucker… First off you don’t “own” fucking hip hop. It’s an art for, seeing as both music and poetry are forms of art. False sense of entitlement much? That’s like saying the first person to ever paint a picture was white, so if you’re another color you need our permission to paint a picture. The fact is majority of elite underground rappers today are white, Lyrically I can name 5 white rappers that would fucking body 99% of ALL rappers, never mind just black. You straight up racist AF, check yourself.
Any “race” of people can act like a devil! Meanwhile ho Bama (devil) earmarked 12m for holocaust survivors in ’13 ? @r.b.a/g.m.b.b kill ur selves! Also pharoh didn’t create Willie lynch tactics when getting the pyramids built pussy!
Right. The Pharos didn’t need any policy. They simply murdered you without justification. Pussy. You where referring to whites as Devils you ignorant piece of shit. What about the native Americans? The Latinos? Holocaust survivors where rounded up and put in concentration camps to die. Their whiny we are victim shit is a much more authentic claim than reparations, because other EU countries watched it happen and didn’t do shit. Every culture has been a slave to anothe culture at one point in time, tool. Only losers sit and bitch. You are in America now. A free man. Full of opportunities. Stop making excuses for being a racist deadbeat loser who doesn’t want to work and is in and out of prison. No one will ever give you anything for free. Duchebag.
Its funny, Kweli has a show at “City Winery” which is a snobby wine bar/restaurant in a “hip” part of Chicago that is 99% white next week. I imagine he doesnt book his own shows, but youd think his manager would have some sense to look into a place called “City Winery.” Maybe he should be spreading his word to people that dont frequent wine bars.
This shit is crazy admit it
Pharos didn’t need any tactics. You where a slave. You weren’t taken to a better land. They would make you work until you couldn’t, then they killed you. You where sick, didn’t work, you died. Try reading a book for once, get an education dummy. Slavery is in the past. Mental slavery and racism continues past its half life because of stupid MFers like you. Thanks.
Talib Kweli been out of pocket ever since he self-proclaimed his mouth, the black nationalist voice of reason on the Don Lemon CNN interview and embarrassed the movement of justice for Ferguson with the Mike Brown shooting, the black community/culture, and just himself with his effeminacy. I even tweeted him and he responded to me the same way he’s responding to this white dude. His bad karma brought this on himself and he deserves it. Youtube Christian Psalms – Exclusive Queen Of Age!!!
Black Nationalist anything is race bating self imposed segregation. Stop with all of the BS America. Lives matter, I don’t care what the race or faith of innocents being killed is. No one else should. Racism should be dead in 2016. There is no Black America. There is just America. When cops are acting like idiots shooting innocents, they need to be tried and convicted for killing and innocent person. Saying its a black person shifts the focus of what is happening. Don’t you realize this is a divide and conquer tactic? Dummy!
Black Nationalist anything is race bating self imposed segregation. Stop with all of the BS America. Lives matter, I don’t care what the race or faith of innocents being killed is. No one else should. Racism should be dead in 2016. There is no Black America. There is just America. When cops are acting like idiots shooting innocents, they need to be tried and convicted for killing and innocent person. Saying its a black person shifts the focus of what is happening. Don’t you realize this is a divide and conquer tactic? Dummy!
Black Nationalist anything is race bating self imposed segregation. Stop with all of the BS America. Lives matter, I don’t care what the race or faith of innocents being killed is. No one else should. Racism should be dead in 2016. There is no Black America. There is just America. When cops are acting like idiots shooting innocents, they need to be tried and convicted for killing and innocent person. Saying its a black person shifts the focus of what is happening. Don’t you realize this is a divide and conquer tactic? Dummy!
Kweli needs to get off his high horse. I am not a fan of Diabolic, he’s a one dimensional, anti establishment rapper. Kweli acts like he is the sole voice of hip hop, but he offers little to no input. Just rhetoric that rhymes. No ideas or solutions for hip hop or the black community. The irony is Kweli has one of the worst voices in hip hop, no one is feeling that nasal sneer.
Kweli acting like a typical white man and always pulling the race card. Douchebag uncle tom. He’s just another fraud cotrolled by the white man so he can take advantage a stuggling community. Think I’m lying then go to one of his concerts and try to talk to him and you’ll see for yourself
Which rapper is t controlled by “the white man?” LOL. As matter of fact, since the native Americans where rounded up and killed, what in the US isn’t? You yourself are pulling the race card, idiot. BTW, white man pulling the race card? You must be talking about Macklamore. GTFOH. Lol
Go back to Nebraska you redneck.
I live in Harlem, idiot. Heard of it?
True indeed. I “met” him at a concert once. Dude was a real douche. Very standoffish. Nowhere near the man of the people he claims to be on record.
This is like asking if you like to be punched in the face or kicked in the crotch.
Both disses are garbage.
Plus, Talib still hasn’t learned how to stop cramming 100,000 words in one verse and his vocal delivery is still horrible. Dude makes Alvin and the Chipmunks sound like the second coming of Big Daddy Kane.
Nobody can’t deny that Talib makes better albums than Diabolic.
But nobody who followed Talib in twitter can’t deny that he is way more stupid
Y’all rock with this, huh?
Hm. Ok.
I listen only black rappers. Black rappers do it better. #facts
And when i like my wall street stocks to be tended to or really anything business i usualy get it from a white person seems to work out everytime to imagine that
That is hilarious. Real talk. You forgot doctors, judges, lawyers, firemen…
That is hilarious. Real talk. You forgot doctors, judges, lawyers, firemen…
Diabolic trash as fuck, this dude used to be Immortal Technique’s dickrider, i guess it makes sense now lol
Who is Diabolic?
dumb cracka has to know he’s whack
Cracka? Mad dog is a redneck name. Idiot.
0=the amount of people that would show up with Diabolic did a show in my city
0=the amount shows in New Orleans where someone is t murdered, or soon to be… Nerd. Dodge those bullets.
0=the amount shows in New Orleans where someone is t murdered, or soon to be… Nerd. Dodge those bullets.
0=the amount shows in New Orleans where someone is t murdered, or soon to be… Nerd. Dodge those bullets.
white rappers suck testicals
Right. Eminem can’t rap as well as Twaleeb. Not.
Not that bad to me… I wouldn’t have minded if the beat switched up though
Kweli clings to his melanin because he needs to deflect from the fact that his parents were bourgeois academics. He came up upper-middleclass. He never struggled himself, he just watched other blacks do it from the comfort of his porch. His parents were among Brooklyn’s first gentrifiers. Most Brooklyn MCs wouldn’t fuck with him back in the day cuz they knew he was fake, knew he hadn’t lived it.
Some of those white rappers that kweli is accusing of appropriation actually came from slums, actually lived that struggle. And he calls ’em the vultures. What a bitch.
hi D-i-a-p-e-r-b-o-l-i-c
Never even listened to Diabolic’s shit. I love IT though so I might of caught a feature of his somewhere but im not sure. I was more so referring to MCs like Eminem and Vinnie Paz who came up a lot harder than bitch ass petit-bourgeois Kweli.
Racism still prevails regardless of socioeconomic status. Even with this, what we have to go through to even get there. We’re not an isolated people, meaning the struggles are the same and we address them as a community. Individualism is a White societal NORM, not an African one. Just because Talib may have had a different experience does NOT mean his family, friends etc had the same experiences. Black people as a whole are LOCKED into certain social stratums as a GROUP. Furthermore, being White and Poor is NOT the same as being Black and Poor, don’t ever equate White poverty to Black poverty, they are not the same. They ARE vultures, every last one of them.
Bruz, quit the wak pedigree black bitching… Ya welfare check just came in! Go buy some apache from the choco street corner. Get messy… That’s all you dogs do after all 😉
Bruz, quit the wak pedigree black bitching… Ya welfare check just came in! Go buy some apache from the choco street corner. Get messy… That’s all you dogs do after all 😉
Kweli is not a rapper anymore, he is a twitter activist that has like no life, I was a fan of him for a few years though and he was very solid lyricist bk in the day. Voice and Delivery were hit and miss, lots more than I can say for diabolic though. The diss track wasn’t great but wasn’t that bad. Kweli is one of the MF’ers that always think they are the smartest guy in the room and his lame fans help feed that for him. The way the guy rants and raves on Twitter for like 12 hours straight and goes to bed and wakes up and does it again is like the definition of a loser.
Somebody is… Butthurt… ^^^^ yall whiteboys always hating smh #NoGeneralization
Devils? LOL. The “gods” can’t afford child support and are all killing each other over Nike. LOLOLOL.
#NoGeneralization yet you say “y’all white boy’s” hilarious. You are a clown. Tool.
I don’t know who this other dude is, but Kweli has always been one of the most overrated rappers of all time. He came into the game at a time when rap was so thirsty for any non-bling rapper, that people acted like any backpacker was a great MC. The soundbombing era. He has actually benefited more from white listeners than almost any other rapper, maybe it makes him mad that brothas ain’t tryin’ to listen to him because he’s corny, and not corny because he’s ‘conscious’ but corny because his style and his rhymes are just corny and pretentious. If you go to a Kweli show, it’s nothin’ but coffee shop chicks and white dudes. I don’t know what kind of person he is, and I don’t follow twitter, but as someone who is qualified to judge an MC by skills and skills alone, Kweli is a 6.0 out of 10 rapper at BEST. Peace.
Idk which of them is the more irrelevant. However Kwali still sounds like a bellyfull preschooler.
Kweli got no problem taking 1,000 white kids money when he do a show
He got some classics but i never liked Kweli’s flow /voice/personality Diabolic ripped him up on that track first thing i heard from him since i copped Liar and a Thief a couple years ago that album was a banger