infamousred
All Star
There's a lot of great albums I've never saw mentioned on here.
3 Years on theColi and no thread on Talib's Eardrum Album ..
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BmoreGorilla
Veteran
I thought Kweli was on the verge of finally blowing up around this time. This was his most radio friendly album plus he had Liberation with Madlib and his own Blacksmith label. What happened?
Knicksman20
Superstar
Eardrum was dope and the last kweli album I really fukked with and listened to from start to finish.
I don't really listen to new music like that anymore so it's nothing personal to Talib, I'm sure his new sh1t is probably equally as dope but I wouldn't know cause I haven't heard it
He sonned organized religion on this track though
Top 10 Kweli track imo, son was spitting gems
3.75/5 great album, it's not fukkboy music so it won't be discussed here 
CLASSIC
CLASSIC
newworldafro
DeeperThanRapBiggerThanHH
5/5 album. I remember not hearing anything from Norah Jones for a while, wasto see her pop up on here.
also
Great song. Should have been video.
On the other hand, he delivered a great truly unique video here.
I view this as a perfect storm album for Kweli. The music, lyrics and promotion for this were all at the right levels. This album was also prefaced by Liberation with Madlib (for free no less) so things lined up very nicely. The first song on this album, Everything Man, is a smash. Kweli gets given a hard time because of longevity. Truly, it's the same for any entity that's been around for a long time. People can point to specific albums in his vast catalog and say "He should keep doing this type of LP". That is the double edged sword.
This album is also old school in the fact that it's damn near 80 minutes. He used every limit of the medium to get his album across. Shoot, the vinyl is 3 LPsTo echo earlier statements in this thread, all of his albums are solid. The Beautiful Struggle's "Going Hard" is an amazing song. Pimp C's verse on County Cousins is simply perfection. More Or Less is wild along with the other songs that have already been brought up.
It's always been a case of promotion when it comes to the populace's knowledge of you. All of Kweli's Rawkus albums were heavily to decently promoted. After that monet dried up, you could see his reputation changing to "He's fallen off" because he's not "in your face" like other artists who are footing the bill. Couple that with him going out of his way to try and do new things turns people off going back to my earlier statement about specifics in his catalog. Duke has 12 albums and none of them are trash. However, if your needs are fulfilled with Eardrum, you might not care to listen to Revolutions Per Minute even though people begged for Reflection Eternal 2.
Don't sleep on Prisoner of Conscious. I feel that it's on par with Eardrum.
This album is also old school in the fact that it's damn near 80 minutes. He used every limit of the medium to get his album across. Shoot, the vinyl is 3 LPsTo echo earlier statements in this thread, all of his albums are solid. The Beautiful Struggle's "Going Hard" is an amazing song. Pimp C's verse on County Cousins is simply perfection. More Or Less is wild along with the other songs that have already been brought up.
It's always been a case of promotion when it comes to the populace's knowledge of you. All of Kweli's Rawkus albums were heavily to decently promoted. After that monet dried up, you could see his reputation changing to "He's fallen off" because he's not "in your face" like other artists who are footing the bill. Couple that with him going out of his way to try and do new things turns people off going back to my earlier statement about specifics in his catalog. Duke has 12 albums and none of them are trash. However, if your needs are fulfilled with Eardrum, you might not care to listen to Revolutions Per Minute even though people begged for Reflection Eternal 2.
Don't sleep on Prisoner of Conscious. I feel that it's on par with Eardrum.
newworldafro
DeeperThanRapBiggerThanHH
newworldafro
DeeperThanRapBiggerThanHH
Forgot about Soon the New Day 
I bumped this heavy the spring or summer it came out. Thanks OP.
I bumped this heavy the spring or summer it came out. Thanks OP.
*L*E*G*A*C*Y*
Done.
I kind of stopped paying attention to Talib's solo releases after Reflection Eternal: Train of Thought...he'll never get to that level again.
Its his 2nd best album after Train of Thought. It was kinda comeback album after Beautiful Struggle and Right About Now. It was long but not really any filler. Kweli always has a few gems and good music for the soul, this was his best solo album, if you dont count the first Reflection Eternal
Abstract83
Superstar
My favorite Kweli joints are
Reflection Eternal 1 5/5
BlackStar 5/5
Quality 5/5
Beautiful Struggle 3/5
Right About Now 4/5
Liberation 5/5
Gravitas 4/5
Eardrum 4/5
He also had a few mixtapes I bumped. Can't think if the names.
The rest I don't check for. Eardrum was his peak to me. I use to be a big Talib fan at one point. Everybody like Mos better. And Black On Both Sides is a classic but I think Talib got the better catalog overall.
Reflection Eternal 1 5/5
BlackStar 5/5
Quality 5/5
Beautiful Struggle 3/5
Right About Now 4/5
Liberation 5/5
Gravitas 4/5
Eardrum 4/5
He also had a few mixtapes I bumped. Can't think if the names.
The rest I don't check for. Eardrum was his peak to me. I use to be a big Talib fan at one point. Everybody like Mos better. And Black On Both Sides is a classic but I think Talib got the better catalog overall.
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