Talib Kweli Reflection Eternal Appreciation Thread

Tasha And

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Beautiful album. One of my favorite of all time. The vibes I get from re-listening to it throws me back into my high school days, perhaps more than any other album. It was a wonderful soundtrack to first dates, losing my virignity, breaking up, playing PS2 games, becoming "woke" or learned on ideologies I still hold today, meeting friends that shared a similar taste in hip hop, writing poems, raps, and short stories, reading poems and short stories, getting college acceptance letters, etc. This album, and specific songs like Love Language, Four Women, Memories Live, Africa Dream, Too Late, Good Morning and Down For The Count remind me of all of those things.

It's one of the reasons I can't ever agree with the "Talib has always sucked" sentiment that has become prevalent on here. I'm not a big fan of a lot of his other stuff without Hi-Tek (the beats on here:ohlawd:), but Blackstar and Train of Thought are treasures to me.
 
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If Father Time has been a little tough on Kweli's music, imagine how hard He's gonna shyt on Ducktales and these trash rappers you swear are goat :laff:

Kweli was never a goat contender and was always a little bit above average, but he has classic songs. He's a better rapper than Eminem. You can't see it because cac privilege is a mutha and you can never be verified:umad:

 

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This album is up there with BOBS for me

Kweli was killing every track and hi-tek came with the dope beats

Can play the whole album through and not skip any tracks, even big del's song was cool and a nice change of pace :pachaha:
 

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Kweli is in my top 10 just based off his 3 album run from Blackstarr to Quality.

People hate his off-kilter flow, but I personally love it... Very unique and fun to rap along to
 
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