Talib Kweli names the artists he believes are on their way to legend status.
According to Brooklyn wordsmith Talib Kweli, there are a handful of present-day artists who are on their way to becoming legends. Among the artists Kweli named in a post uploaded to Twitter this week were Run The Jewels, Joey Bada$$, Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, Rapsody, anderson paak, and Chance The Rapper.
The musician made the reveal when a Twitter user shared their belief that artists like A Tribe Called Quest and Rakim, do not have any counterparts in today’s music.
“I disagree. RTJ, Joey Badass, Kendrick, Cole, Rapsody, anderson paak, chance, all great on they way to legend,” Talib Kweli tweeted in response, yesterday (May 17).
After sharing his list of future legends, Kweli then touched on the ease in which good music can be found, today.
“You are pretending that finding good music is harder than it used to be. That is false. It’s way easier…People forget the primary subject of real hiphop from 20-30 years ago was the ubiquitous ‘wack MC.’ Cuz there was a lot of wack shit out,” the rapper wrote in two separate tweets.
Talib Kweli’s tweet sharing his picks for future music legends, can be found below.
LOL nice try Talib…keep the faith alive (just don’t make me laugh so hard next time)
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Wtf is funny, lame ass nigga lol
Well said Talib, there is plenty of good music out there, especially hip hop. Unfortunately we’re going to through the mumble rap phase commercially but all the artists he mentioned definitely have strong bodies of work to be considered legends in the future if they keep up with it.
Sidenote: I dont like Chance’s album that much.
Talib is out of touch because his still naming artists that are not hip hop well Rapsody is but the rest are just the best of the commercial groups. He’s acting like you can only be a future legend if you already have a name or some success. Give me a cat I never heard of or someone on some next level stuff ?
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Only j.cole and Kendrick Lamar will the rest will not!!
He is riGht! They are on their way…Drake is already a legend.
Compare Drake’s You & The Six with Pac’s Dear Mama & a Top5 Diss Track, you might be right bruh
Music is mediocre, name a drake album that raised standards, wasn’t his last album garbage
Control system solidified ab-Soul’s legend status. HE already legend. #Hiiipower bish
Chance sucks. The rest are dope.
Talib Kweli is an ubiquitous “wack MC.”
why people keep sleeping on vado?
This Talib dude is AN IMBECILE. Consistently trying to regain relevance in the worst of way, anti-Semitic prick. Fck him
i don’t get the hypebeast with Rapsody…while she’s not dej loaf she damn sure ain’t queen latifah or mc lyte either
I think rapsody is like your favourite rappers rapper type, she gets love from people within the industry producers seem to think he is dope, Dre, 9th, premier, etc etc
I think rapsody is like your favourite rappers rapper type, she gets love from people within the industry producers seem to think he is dope, Dre, 9th, premier, etc etc
He = she
What about Eminem?? Haha jk I just wanted to throw out the obligatory white guy statement. I do think Kendrick is killin it and Cole & RTJ are legit. But to stir things up, what about freestyle? hottest freestyle imo ain’t on this list. Personally I think King Los has the best freestyle goin. K Dot best albums.