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...Doesn’t ring any bells? Perhaps you know them better by their pseudonyms: MF Doom, DJ Danger Mouse, Ghostface Killah, Cee-Lo and Talib Kweli, respectively...
...guest appearances are also less impressive than they should be given such a pedigree of talent. Talib’s rhymes on reminisce-fest “Old School” is decent, but the sunny beat feels more appropriate to a Kweli album and the prominent hook feels sorely out of place on a Doom album. Atlanta legend Cee-Lo, who lends his Southern-fried crooning to “Benzi Box,” has stolen tracks from the likes of Jay-Z and Outkast with his ridiculous flow, and his rapping skills are sorely missed here...
...White Music" [Aug. 22]. To suggest that an entire genre of music has not grown and evolved just as its listeners have is simply uneducated. There is more to hip-hop than the mainstream media choose to embrace. There is a whole world of music, from rapper Talib Kweli to hip-hop poet and singer Saul Williams, that isn't a painful "audio beat down." I have a hard time with labels like black music and white music. Why can't people just listen to music, period--rock, rap or whatever they want...
...experience for me...People don’t realize that someone like Tupac gave himself the same type of college education in sociology and philosophy that Harvard students get here, purely of his own volition and interest. People don’t realize that rappers like Mos Def, Talib Kweli, and Nas all have vast amounts of literature and orature behind them that move into their works. As far as school, I’m resolved to change the way that I view my education, because any knowledge I can integrate into a song or into a creation...
While the council overwhelmingly supported a bill authorizing the Harvard Concert Commission (HCC) to bid on eight other acts—Busta Rhymes, Kanye West, Mos Def, Jurassic 5, Talib Kweli, Nappy Roots, Chingy, Blackalicious, Twista, Cee Lo and Common—in addition to Wyclef Jean, several council members raised objections to the potential cost of bringing “no-name performers” to Harvard...