On top of his phone number and his address being on the Texas State bar website, he's also posted on his account his phone number and his address and encouraged people to hit him up, if they have any grievances. And on that website is this guy's phone number and his address. He claimed to be a lawyer so I looked up his - there's a website called Find A Lawyer that's run by the Texas State Bar. and when I looked on his page, he's spending all his time threatening people. Talib Kweli: So this guy, his first tweet to me was something about, he's an attorney and I'm stupid and I'm not as intelligent as mentally challenged people. For those who haven't heard about it, do you mind telling me your take on all this?
Michel Martin: So you've been in the news lately because Twitter locked you out of your account, following an exchange with a Texas attorney who was writing some pretty threatening things to many people. Hear the radio version at the audio link and read on for an edited transcript. Speaking with NPR's Michel Martin, Kweli discusses speaking out on racism, the changing value of radio play in hip-hop and his album's tribute to Bresha Meadows, who was arrested at 14 for killing her father after years of alleged domestic abuse. Kweli's eighth studio album it's titled Radio Silence. whether sparring with Don Lemon on CNN or trolls on social media. Outside the studio, Kweli has been just as outspoken. Talib Kweli has, for more than two decades now, been considered a standard bearer for what's sometimes called "conscious rap." Both as a part of the hip-hop duo Black Star with Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def) and as a solo act, his music provides social and political commentary layered over a bed of eclectic production. Kweli says that because of his eventually-smoothed relationship with Kedar, he landed on Chico Debarge’s 2009 song “Math.” He has also worked with Badu.Talib Kweli's latest album, Radio Silence, is out Nov. So when we went in the studio, I D’Angelo working on that when Erykah was living in, that was the rudiments of all of this.” Prompted by Sway, Kweli agrees that Neo-Soul ( a term Kedar has claimed to have created) started in Brooklyn. I didn’t know that back then when I was arguing with him on my stoop. Kweli continues, “Kedar was in them streets, official. He would head Motown Records from 1997 to 2004.
Kedar, also a BK native, has been instrumental in the careers of D’Angelo, Erykah Badu, and Stetsasonic. But that’s my man now, with his suits and everything, he done came up,” jokes Talib. You need to give me his money back.’ Me and Kedar had a problem. I was like, ‘Nah, get the f*ck outta here f*ck is wrong with you?’ He asked me for money ’cause Myka had given me money for rent. He banged on my door and asked for money. “He did! This is how I met Kedar Massenburg. Sway asks if Kedar Massenburg grew upset at the change of residence. Myka 9 moved in…shout out to ‘Microphone Myke.’ We’ve been friends for over 20 years and we never put out a record this is our first record we put out together.” Myka came over to my house to smoke weed because he met my roommate, and that’s how we became friends. Myka had gone to a bodega and met my roommate on Classon & Gates. Kedar used to live around the corner from me. “Myka 9 used to be managed by Kedar Massenburg. “Shout out to Myka 9, the whole Freestyle Fellowship, Project Blowed,” begins Kweli around 13:00. The two artists work together on the title track to Kweli’s newly-released Radio Silence album, which got the MC to talking.įrom Q-Tip To Chappelle, Talib Kweli’s Inner-Circle Shines In His New Video Despite representing opposite coasts, the Black Star MC had a tenant by way of Freestyle Fellowship MC Myka 9 during the mid-1990s.
Those are just a few examples.Īppearing on Sway In The Morning, Talib Kweli revealed a new Hip-Hop fun-fact with a good story to boot. In the early 1990s, the Alkaholiks and Likwit affiliates formed after ( according to Ice-T) passing out nightly on King T’s apartment floor. RZA and Ghostface Killah were under the same roof in the days before Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers). During the early 1990s, Gang Starr members Guru and DJ Premier lived together at several New York City residences (one was a Brooklyn home owned by Branford Marsalis). There have been several memorable Hip-Hop roommates.