Talib Kweli

USA

Born: 03 October 1975

Years Active: 90, 2000

Genres: Rap, R&B

Styles: East Coast Rap, Hip-Hop/Urban, Hip-Hop/Urban, Underground Rap, Alternative Rap

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If skills sold, Talib Kweli would have been one of the most commercially successful rappers of his time. As it was, however, the earnest MC became 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 the group Black Star. This trio of up-and-comers and their widely acclaimed self-titled 1998 album debut, Black Star, helped make Rawkus Records one of the premier underground rap outposts of the late '90s. Kweli and Hi-Tek then collaborated as a duo on Re...

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