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Talib Kweli

August 2021

  • Jason Burke

    9/11: 20 years later
    I watched the bombs fall to unleash the 9/11 wars. Two decades later, they grind on

    Jason Burke
    Listening to Joe Biden’s words as the US left Afghanistan was to hear echoes of George W Bush from 2001. Is this a crisis destined to repeat itself?

August 2020

  • Talib Kweli in concert at Islington Assembly Hall, London, January 2020.

    Rapper Talib Kweli banned from Twitter after dispute with woman

    Kweli has been suspended for ‘repeated violations of Twitter rules’, but denies harassing Maya Moody on the platform

July 2019

  • Talib Kweli

    Talib Kweli’s removal from festival lineup is part of anti-Palestinian censorship trend

    Letter: 103 signatories including Peter Gabriel, Naomi Klein and Boots Riley condemn attempts in Germany to impose political conditions on artists who support Palestinian rights

May 2018

  • ‘He is not a free thinker. He is a free moron who doesn’t read’ ... Kanye West, according to Roxane Gay.

    Kanye West slavery comments spark backlash: 'He's putting targets on our backs'

    Black cultural figures from Ava DuVernay to Will.i.am and Spike Lee have condemned Kanye West for saying ‘slavery for 400 years ... that sounds like a choice’

February 2017

  • British Record Shops See A Vinyl Revival<br>BRISTOL, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 14: A record dealer in Wanted Records in St Nicholas Market puts on a vinyl record on the shop's turntable on October 14, 2015 in Bristol, England. Although sales of vinyl records declined dramatically with the introduction of digital formats such as CDs and downloads it is now seen as a premium product and sales this year in the UK of newly pressed LP records on vinyl are expected to top 2million double what they were in 2014. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

    Elton John will help curate new vinyl subscription service

    Experience Vinyl will send subscribers the favourite albums of its star curators, including Quincy Jones and Talib Kweli

August 2016

  • Lollapalooza, Day 3, Chicago, USA - 30 Jul 2016<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by ddp USA/REX/Shutterstock (5810143aa) Guitarist Tom Morello performs with X Ambassadors Lollapalooza, Day 3, Chicago, USA - 30 Jul 2016

    Tom Morello and Talib Kweli protest against TPP as fellow stars stay quiet

    Musicians target trade with Rock Against the TPP tour as experts say today’s artists often turn to tweets, not tunes, to make political statements

August 2015

  • Gil Scott-Heron circa 1970

    Gil Scott-Heron: the revolution lives on

  • Obama, according to Spotify, enjoys listening to Sly and the Family Stone's "Hot Fun in the Summertime."

    Potus playlist: Barack Obama shares his favorite summer tracks on Spotify

November 2014

  • Macklemore protest

    ‘We are Michael Brown’s family’: how rap and R&B stars responded to the Ferguson protest

    The demonstrations in the US over the decision not to charge the police officer who killed Michael Brown have given new focus to hip-hop’s political voices

July 2014

  • Talib Kweli

    Vinyl cut
    Vinyl Cut: Talib Kweli goes record shopping with the Guardian

    In the first of a new series, the Guardian took rapper Talib Kweli record shopping at Rough Trade's New York store. Kweli, whose hip-hop breakthrough came via his partnership with Mos Def as Black Star, tells how his interest in music stemmed from 1950s rock'n'roll, Motown and jazz. Gil Scott-Heron and Little Dragon were part of an eclectic selection

March 2012

  • Music blog
    Lowkey, Logic and a new wave of political British hip-hop MCs

    Touring the UK with Talib Kweli are representatives of a new breed of homegrown, politically engaged rapper

November 2011

  • Mos Def

    Black Star announce second album

    Hip-hop duo featuring Mos Def and Talib Kweli to release first LP in 13 years, a mixtape inspired by Aretha Franklin

August 2007

  • Talib Kweli, Ear Drum

    The swotty rapper returns to his non-commercial roots.

July 2007

  • Talib Kweli

    If there are to be winners and losers in what has become hip-hop's year of living introspectively, it would be difficult to think of a more deserving beneficiary than Talib Kweli.

September 2004

  • Talib Kweli, The Beautiful Struggle

    (Rawkus)

December 2002

  • Talib Kweli: Quality

    (Rawkus)

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