Last week Talib Kweli announced on Twitter that he’d done a song with bling-happy rapper Gucci Mane. A blogger who follows him declared the collaboration to be “the end of conscious rap.” Well I believe that Gucci and his audience need to hear from Kweli. Sometimes unlikely collaborations predictably flop and other times they are [...]
1. Regarding Talib Kweli’s defense of his collaboration with Gucci Mane in response to a displeased blogger don’t you think Gucci’s audience needs to hear Talib? 2. Can Foxy Brown stay out of trouble? 3. Why was Elzhi absent from Slum Village’s last two videos?
Reflection Eternal “Ballad of the Black Gold” from Sam Ellison on Vimeo. The black gold has spilled everywhere and no one from BP has been arrested. It’s no telling if and when the black gold will ever be truly cleansed from the gulf and everywhere else it went.
Reflection Eternal – Ballad Of The Black Gold (Live @ Amoeba Records, San Francisco, CA. 5/24/2010) from AlwaysHustle.com on Vimeo. What a great song to perform with the BP oil spill still going strong after a month.
Talib Kweli and DJ Hi-Tek have been promoting their new Reflection Eternal album that came out Tuesday. They performed “Midnight Hour” with Estelle from the new album and “The Blast” from the first Reflection Eternal album ten years ago.
I never knew that Reflection Eternal which is a fan favorite sold the least.
Hopefully the addition of Estelle will spread the gospel of Reflection Eternal to a wider audience.
“In This World,” “Strangers (Paranoid)” and “Back Again.”