Biography

Talib Kweli was one of the most critically successful rappers of his time, which dawned in the late '90s when he rapped alongside Mos Def and DJ Hi-Tek as part of Black Star. After the group's widely acclaimed 1998 album, Black Star, Kweli and Hi-Tek collaborated as a duo on Reflection Eternal (2000). Kweli continued his output, beginning with Quality (2002), and though he didn't rack up towering sales numbers, he remained a critical favorite and was admired and respected by mainstream rappers, best evidenced by Jay-Z's famous Black Album rhyme: "If skills sold, truth be told/I'd probably be, lyrically, Talib Kweli." ~ Jason Birchmeier

Top Tracks

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• Black Girl Pain

• Broken Glass

• Flash Gordon

• Get By

• Give 'em Hell

• Good Mourning

• I Try

• In The Red

• Just Begun

• Listen!!!

• Move Somethin'

• My Weather Report

• Rush

• Say Something

• Shock Body

• Some Kind Of Wonderful

• Strangers (paranoid)

• Supreme Supreme

• The Blast

• Who Got It

Discography

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• Revolutions Per Minute

  Blacksmith Records / Warner Bros.

  2010