Genres: Hip-Hop, Alternative Rap, East Coast Rap, Underground Rap Active: 90's, 2000's Born: in Brooklyn, NY
De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, Chuck D, KRS-One, Q-Tip, Nas, Eric B. & Rakim, Boogie Down Productions, Jungle Brothers, Kool G Rap, Afrika Bambaataa & the Soulsonic Force, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five Pharoahe Monch, Jurassic 5, Dilated Peoples, Slum Village, Kanye West, Shabaam Sahdeeq, Mr. Lif, Jean Grae, One Be Lo, GZA, Common, Company Flow, The Coup, Guru, Rakim, Da Bush Babees, Big L, The Roots, Jay Dee |  |
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 Reflection Eternal (2000), which firmly established them apart from Mos Def, who had gone solo.
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Release: September 30, 2008
Label: Fortress
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Release: August 14, 2007
Label: Blacksmith, Blacksmith/Warner Bros., Warner Bros.
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