Talib Kweli

Person · Open Library

Works

2

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Film & TV

Acting

Known for

• A GRAMMY Salute to 50 Years of Hip-Hop — Self2023
• Amazon Music Live: Wu-Tang Clan, Nas, and De La Soul's 'N.Y. State of Mind Tour' — Himself2023
• Mixtape Trilogy: Stories of the Power of Music — Self2022
• jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy — Self (archive footage)2022
• Where We're From: Rise of L.A. Underground Hip Hop — Self2021
• Ice Cold: The Untold Story of Hip Hop Jewelry2020
• The Last O.G. — DJ Racks2018
• Stretch and Bobbito: Radio That Changed Lives2015
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self - Musical Guest2014
• Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton: This Is Stones Throw Records — Self2013

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1975

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1,048,904

Total plays

17,628,921

Talib Kweli Greene (born October 3, 1975 in Brooklyn, New York) is a North American MC known as one of the most prominent rappers in underground hip-hop, and is critically acclaimed frequently, despite not being commercially successful. Kweli first gained recognition through Black Star, a collaboration with fellow MC Mos Def. He released his solo debut album Quality in 2002 and has since released 2004's The Beautiful Struggle, 2005's mixtape album Right About Now, 2007's Eardrum, 2011's Gutter R

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. A review of intervention studies aimed at household energy conservation

   · 2005 · cited 1,922x

2. Immune evasion in cancer: Mechanistic basis and therapeutic strategies

   · 2015 · cited 1,395x

3. The Genetic Structure and History of Africans and African Americans

   · 2009 · cited 1,296x

4. Convergent adaptation of human lactase persistence in Africa and Europe

   · 2006 · cited 1,156x

5. Nanoceria exhibit redox state-dependent catalase mimetic activity

   · 2010 · cited 1,100x

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Quotes

• “At exactly which point do you start to realize, that life without knowledge is death in disguise?”
• “We played against each other like puppets, swearing you got pull When the only pull you got is the wool over your eyes Getting knowledge in jail like a blessing in disguise Look in the skies for god, what you see besides the smog Is broken dreams flying away on the wings of the obscene.”
• “Creating crime rates to fill the new prisons they build Over money and religion theres more blood that spills Like the wounds of slaves in cotton fields that never heal Whats the deal?”
• “These cats drink champagne and toast to death and pain, Like slaves on a ship talking about who's got the flyest chain”
• “Persistance, dedication Consistent, motivation, resistance to stagnation of information, distribute it free to the entire population No hesitation, makin it public No privitazation from corporations”
• “These niggas ain't thugs, the real thugs is the government. Don't matter if you're Independent, Democrat or Republican”

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