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People's Party with Talib Kweli

Hit-Boy on Working with Legends Like Kanye, Beyoncé, and Others—Plus Stories Behind Creating Some of His Well-Known Hits

People's Party with Talib Kweli

UPROXX

Music

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

The innovative producer, rapper, singer, and songwriter talks about working with greats such as Drake, Beyoncé, Kanye, and Eminem, then takes us behind the creation of some of his most well-known songs. The multi-hyphenate also breaks down his long relationship with rapper Dom Kennedy, and tells us why FL Studio is his DAW of choice.

Transcript

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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

0:08.0

co-host, Ms. Jasmine Lee. What up Jasmine? What up Peeps to hear our entire combo and all of our

0:12.8

episodes with stars from the game to Lil Kim, to Anthony Anderson, to my sister Tiffany Hattich,

0:18.4

subscribe to the Luminary channel on Apple Podcasts. I heard that Kanye didn't want you to use

0:23.9

beat tags and I've heard you talk about that. But what I want to ask is Big Sean gave you to

0:29.4

beat tag preserve, right? You felt like that was like he appreciated you. Why did you feel the

0:33.6

need to be like, nah, I got to let these people know. Man, this beat is crazy because like I went,

0:39.4

I just seen somebody tweet the other day like, because I didn't use no tags on the whole magic

0:44.8

album for Niles and I didn't use no tags on a snoop album. And somebody was like, damn, I already

0:50.1

missed the tags and I just was kind of using the tag as a motivator in fact, because I felt like I

0:56.0

had so much catching up to do with myself and just by me focusing on too much when I was at the

1:02.5

height of everything. I feel like I spread myself to thin. So these last three years is being,

1:08.5

I'm just dumping back to back. I see people in the streets, I see artists, I see producers,

1:14.1

and the respect level has completely went up. And that's just because I set back and I just

1:19.8

focused and I just was doing beat after beat. And the thing for me with the tag was like,

1:25.4

that I don't know, it was just like a motivational thing at the moment just for me to, I guess,

1:30.9

I don't know how to put it, man, just like keep perspective on things.

1:34.8

Yeah, we're moving out of like the singles era, I mean, out of the album era, to the singles

1:41.2

era. And me as someone who, my whole thing is crafting great albums. I know what you like,

1:47.2

when somebody comes to you, let's work, you're like, let's do a project as opposed to just one

1:51.2

of them. Exactly. Which I appreciate. But also for me as an album, albums I'm doing with

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