Brooklyn rapper Talib Kweli may have commented on Hip Hop being “laughable” on his Prisoner of Conscious record “Upper Echelon” as he rapped, “rap been laughable over the last year or two.” But according to the Black Star emcee, he’s actually quite the optimist when it comes to the genre.
Kweli’s lyric on “Upper Echelon” is just one of a number of topics the rapper addressed during his interview with The Real Hip-Hop.
“I think rap has always been laughable,” said the rapper. “Truth be told, I’m far more of an optimist when it comes to Hip-Hop than that lyric would suggest. That’s me being competitive and taunting the competition by calling it laughable. Really, I enjoy a lot of Hip-Hop music. Is there a lot of laughable rap? Sure, I just try not to pay attention to it.”
Later in the interview, Kweli placed rapper/producer RZA, who he worked with on his album cut “Rocket Ships,” with the likes of Kanye West, J Dilla, and Pete Rock as one of the top producers in rap.
“RZA is the truth, man. RZA definitely belongs up there with all them cats you named,” Kweli revealed. “It’s a dream come true to work with him. RZA is somebody I consider a friend. I’ve known him as a friend for a while but we never worked on a record that’s been for me. I’ve done things for him on soundtracks and stuff but this was special.”
To read Kweli’s full interview, visit TheRealHip-Hop.com.
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1. Mercy, Mercy (Produced by Madlib)
2. Home Grown Terrorist (Produced by Madlib)
3. One Step Ahead feat. Black Thought (Produced by ?uestlove, co. Ray Angry, co. Richard Nichols)
4. Sinnermen (Produced by Hi-Tek)
5. Selfish feat. Res (Produced by Hi-Tek)
6. Faith feat. Blu & James Blake (Produced by Madlib)
7. Feel the Bass (Produced by Madlib)
8. Street Poems (Produced by ?uestlove, co. Ray Angry, co. Richard Nichols)
9. Spiritual Blindness (9:39) (Produced by Hi-Tek)
10. Gettin’ Funky feat. Bilal (Produced by Hi-Tek)
11. Daydreaming (Produced by Hi-Tek)
12. When You Get There feat. Erykah Badu (Produced by Yasiin Bey)
13. Black to the Point feat. Jay Electronica (Produced by Oh No)
14. Things Ain’t What They Used to Be feat. Norah Jones (Produced by Q-Tip)
15. Black Star Aretha feat. Common & Aretha Franklin (Produced by Kanye West)
so where is this coming from did you just make this up or is this a true track list?
that would be sick
no dilla…
A hip-hoptimist, if you will.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZwsdW6TAl8
Talib Kweli Calls Himself An Irrelevant Nigga
i havent given a fuck about this guy since Reflection Eternal and that was when i was in 10th grade n shit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T8E09aAOIc
this dudes on both sides of the fence pick a side and stay there stop looking like what your rhymes described back in the early rawkus days. you say its been laughable but you also support that wack shit at the same time let the money be right and you will do it. now you have an album suggesting that being called what you’ve been is a burden holding you back. NIGGA PLEASE shout to those who rep hip hop and know where they stand and stay both feet down while rapper like kweli move with contradiction which is why mos def won’t sit and wait on what you trying to be but in the same lane he does the shit too. we need a de la soul album to show him how its done nahmean
Mos Def > Talib. Talib got no charisma or personality. His lyrics are good, but there’s nothing about his persona that makes you want to listen to him.
you mean like he aint caught a case in his life,or made doe off some drugs or better yet slapped a bitch life chris brown?
this guy is the releast rapper there is out there,he keeps a low profile & what he lack for in personality he makes up with the vivid rhymes he spit(or as he puts it-“I paint a picture with the pen like Norman Mailer
“)-so all this mos def better than kweli needs to end here-nuff said
drake shits on this niggas carreer and people have the nerve to make fun of french for selling 50k when this nigga with so much years in hiphop can’t even sell half that amount. Drake runs rap period
FUCK drake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W1tG-m4NSU
his flow sucks
i mean talib flow sucks
rza dope
I RUN THIS SHIT
uhuhuhhuh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7tvkpE00bo
Gotta say, he missed a chance for a perfect line by not calling himself a ‘hip-hoptimist’
LOL!
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