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Talib Kweli: Can't Tell Me Nothing
Believe it or not, Talib Kweli cares what you think of him. His eyes - barely visible behind his gold-framed, brown-tinted Aviator lenses - gaze inquisitively at the notepad every time the observant young reporter before him touches pen to paper. Even while seated in a fifth-floor office at VIBE's Manhattan headquarters, the Brooklyn-born lyricist voices his discontent with the magazine's review of his latest project, Eardrum. "They didn't give the album enough credit," says the 31-year-old Kweli, who read the review in our August 2007 issue moments earlier. "My album was way better than [the critic] said it was. She's going to eat her words." ... (read more)
Soulful Revelation
Why Lauryn and Janis' issues with men weren't so revelatory after all.Before Rasta boy Jon Forte wearily spoke of inmates finding the Lord behind the bars of FCI Loretto, before Wyclef Jean flipped battle rhymes on Brooklyn blockhuggers in Haitian, before and Biggie got shot,-- Lauryn Hill, the vintage skirt-rocking poster child of hip-hop's nappy revolution in the later 90s, was having problems with men.... (read more)
From the Blogs
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Speak Easy
I have to say I'm very excited to see what the good folks at Black Entertainment Television have in store for us with this year's BET Awards. With the (read more) -
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7:51: We are coming to you live from an upper middle class neighborhood in South Brooklyn, ready to report on this momentous night. 106 & Park's pre-s (read more) -
Invite Only
Sunday, June 7th--SUMMER JAM. After Jay-Z's "D.O.A" song dropped on Hot 97 on Saturday I became a bit more excited about my attendance. Great weathe (read more) -
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Jay-Z: "D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)" (Produced by No I.D. & Kanye West) from the forthcoming Blueprint 3 (Props to LowKey) It's hot, but it's bad (read more)
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