Anyone see Talib Kweli on TV last night? Shit was dope

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Is there a reason why I shouldn't run out and get his album?

― Oops (Oops), Thursday, 13 February 2003 15:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, he was on Jimmy Kimmel's show

― Oops (Oops), Thursday, 13 February 2003 15:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Album good at beginning and end, uninspired in middle. Overall quality pretty high, but disappointingly free of heart except on the track with Mos Def and the opener.

― Neudonym, Thursday, 13 February 2003 15:42 (twenty-three years ago)

worth 14 bucks? BTW, I liked everything he's done up til now

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 13 February 2003 15:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, I love Quality. It does sag a bit in the middle, but "Get By" "The Proud" "Waiting for the DJ" excellent. It made me go out and by Black Star and Black on Both Sides. His voice sounds less pubescent on Quality.
Plus, dude, Dave Chappelle...

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 13 February 2003 15:55 (twenty-three years ago)

what about Dave Chappelle?

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 13 February 2003 16:02 (twenty-three years ago)

he's rad.
he does the intro

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 13 February 2003 16:05 (twenty-three years ago)

he is indeed rad. One of the only people that makes me laugh everytime he's on Conan/other talk shows
been kinda disappointed by his show (didn't see the one last night, though)

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 13 February 2003 16:11 (twenty-three years ago)

live in Canada, only get bullshit Comedy Network (featuring all the SCTV you can stomach, plus Bosom Buddies and WKRP).
But DC is one of the funniest guys going. He should make more terrible movies with Norm Macdonald. Screwed was hilarious, partly because you could almost pinpoint the moment where everyone involved realized it was a shit movie and gave up acting.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 13 February 2003 16:15 (twenty-three years ago)

the Kanye West tracks on Quality (and a few other highlights) are golden enough for me to put it on, although i think overall it's not as strong as Train Of Thought lyrically or as an album. but i still rate him way higher than pretty much any of his faux-underground "conscious" peers, mainly for the way he flips syllables but also because he's not trying to draw any lines in the sand between what he does and what more "commercial"(ly successful), and on Quality he takes some steps to fight his own Rawkus-y image, with his choice of producers and subject matter, and he busts down white backpackers who try to tell him that Jay-Z is wack.

in a couple weeks MSNBC is taping some kind of "hip hop and politics" panel discussion on my campus and Kweli is going to be there. i'm probably going to go check it out, and if there's any kind of Q&A i'll try to talk to him and maybe push a disc of my beats on him.

― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 13 February 2003 17:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Norm MacDonald and Dave Chapelle should be the new Pryor/Wilder.

― Kris (aqueduct), Thursday, 13 February 2003 18:09 (twenty-three years ago)

what the hell has Norm been up to since his brilliant sitcom disappeared?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 13 February 2003 18:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Ugh! I bought the album over the weekend. Unfocused R & B infected, hip hop-lite.
Anyone want it?

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 17:10 (twenty-three years ago)

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