Common Talks Kanye For President, Ice Cube, J Dilla, Activism

People's Party with Talib Kweli

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4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2020

⏱️ 121 minutes

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In this episode of People's Party, Talib Kweli and Jasmin Leigh sit down with rapper, actor, author, activist, philanthropist, and winner of a Grammy, Emmy, Golden Globe and an Oscar -- Common Common and Kweli's many years of collaborating and touring together, as well as remaining close friends gave way for one incredible interview. Things get started with talk about their original collab together with the recording of Black Star's classic song and video "Respiration". They then go on to discuss Common's mother Dr. Mahalia Ann Hines and her influence on him growing up as a teacher, as well as his father Lonnie "Pops" Lynn, who was famously featured on Common's "Resurrection" album. They also touch on the importance of HBCUs, and his hometown of Chicago being weaponized by politicians. Common gets to reflect on the making of one of the greatest concept records of all-time in "I Used To Love H.E.R.". He digs into all the things that compelled him to write that song, and the profound influence it had on the culture, which naturally leads into talk about his past beef with Ice Cube stemming from a perceived diss to the west coast within those lyrics. He details where he was when he heard the first shot from Cube, the point in time when he felt he had to fire back with his own diss track, and how they eventually reconciled with the help of Minister Farrakhan. Common and Talib go on to reflect on their shared experience of meeting with activist Assata Shakur in Cuba through the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, as well as discuss recording at the famous Electric Lady Studios and how special that place is.

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0:00.0	What's up party people it's Tyler quality to be came see the MCO
0:03.4	I love the fact that y'all checking out the people's party and showing us a lot of love
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0:12.2	Just make sure you subscribe and leave a review people's party. Tell it quality. Let's go
0:30.0	What's up party people it's Tyler quality we are back with the people's party. Thank you for rocking with us
0:34.8	Thank you for showing us your love and your support of course and as always I have my lovely and talented and thoughtful
0:41.6	Co-host Jasmine Lee give it up for Jasmine Lee in the place to be what's up Jasmine? I can't clap for myself today
0:48.4	You got some new going on with your hair. I like it. I did I this probably why my hands are freaking broken. I did some braids
0:56.8	You did it yourself. Yeah man. It's quarantine. I'm not about to have nobody in here
1:01.8	Okay, where it up good job. Good job. Thank you. All right, so today I want to get right into it because
1:08.2	I don't want to spend too much time on the intro because this man really needs no introduction
1:12.8	But it was very challenging for me to come up with the questions for this next guest because
1:18.5	There's just too many questions
1:20.6	But this this dude is one of the most prolific writers of the black American story period
1:27.6	He's a poet
1:28.9	An author a hip-hop star an actor
1:31.3	There's a lot of famous people who who try to do it all but whatever this man
1:36.9	puts his mind to he does so damn well
1:40.0	From when he first started his first album can I borrow a dollar to resurrection to one day it all makes sense
1:46.4	To the golden era of working with the sole querians like like water for chocolate electric circus
1:51.1	Then he got on a good music wave would be finding forever the dream with a believer
1:55.7	Put it out nobody smiling black American again black America again let love
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