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People's Party with Talib Kweli

Belly Talks About Canadian Rap, His Mixtapes, Hip-Hop Subgenres, and Doing What You Love

People's Party with Talib Kweli

UPROXX

Music

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Surprising and inspiring. thoughtful and profane: This episode with rapper Belly is an education for anyone who doesn't know the Palestinian-Canadian rapper’s story. If that describes you, check it, because this episode is a great intro to a rapper who has built a rabid fanbase over the past two decades. If you love hip-hop, it’s time you got Belly on your radar. His depth and playfulness, expressed in equal measure. make him a talent to be reckoned with.

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0:00.0

Peace and love party people. This is Talib Kuala Lee to BKMC, the MCEO.

0:03.8

You are about to hear an excerpt of People's Party hosted by me and my lovely and talented co-host,

0:08.6

Ms. Jasmine Lee. What up Jasmine? What up Peeps to hear our entire combo and all of our episodes.

0:13.6

We've started from the game to Lil Kim, to Anthony Anderson, to my sister Tiffany Hattich,

0:18.5

subscribe to the Luminary channel on Apple Podcasts.

0:21.9

All right, so let's go to 2017. You drop Mumble Wrap, which is a very interesting album title.

0:27.6

Why'd you choose to call it that? You're just fucking with neutral when I say it.

0:31.4

Yeah, it was really weird. Yeah, it was kind of that. And at the same time, too, it was like a lot of

0:36.1

my friends of young guys that came into game and I think they were getting a lot of like this.

0:41.3

Pushback. Yeah, it's kind of unfair to me, you know, because I would be around them and like,

0:45.6

there were such cool dudes, bro, innovative, and even though they weren't expressing like

0:50.5

themselves the way we might, you know, they were doing it and they were uplifting this thing that we

0:55.2

kind of love so much, you know what I mean? Regardless and extending the life of it. And I was just like,

1:00.1

I always felt like, you know, all the young guys got like a bad rap on that Mumble Wrap shit.

1:04.9

I agree. I tell purists and people who, because I got a large purist fan base, obviously,

1:09.8

people who are older than me in my age who don't like that young boy shit.

1:13.0

Absolutely. I tell them, you know, when talking about Mumble Wrap,

1:15.8

Mumble Wrap is a good title because it's funny to say. The idea that somebody who

1:20.1

Mumble as they rap it is funny, but the truth of the matter is the people who listen to Quotal Quotal

1:25.2

Mumble Wrap will they understand it perfectly? So how can you say it's Mumble it? Just because you

1:29.6

don't understand it doesn't mean somebody's Mumble it. Absolutely. And I tell people, I try to remind people

1:33.8

that like, it's just not for you. And that's got to be okay. And that's, that could be okay.

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