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People's Party with Talib Kweli

Jemele Hill On LeBron, Donald Trump and Athlete Rappers

People's Party with Talib Kweli

UPROXX

Music

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Talib Kweli sits down with sports journalist and former ESPN host Jemele Hill to discuss her role with LeBron James’ “Shut Up And Dribble” documentary, Shaq and Kobe’s rap careers, and Donald Trump’s white supremacy agenda.

Transcript

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0:00.0

When you have so many African-American athletes that dominate these sports, hip hop is coming

0:06.2

with it and not that hip hop is only patronized by black folks, but where are the ones that

0:12.9

created the culture and where are the ones that further it through sports.

0:29.2

How you doing party people? This is Taleb Kuali. This is another edition of the People's

0:33.3

Party. How y'all feeling today? I am in the house once again with the always awesome

0:38.2

Jasmine Lee. Let's give it up for Jasmine Lee and House. No doubt. No doubt. Today should

0:43.9

be very interesting. Another one of my favorite people is going to come and talk to us about

0:48.1

hip hop, about music in general, about culture in general, about politics, about sports. This

0:53.8

guest is very important. Tonight, today, I don't know when you're watching this, but right

0:58.7

now we got, I don't know when they're watching it. Right now, we got the talented, the lovely

1:05.3

award-winning journalist, activist. You know where as a sports writer, but she is more than

1:12.1

that. She is a voice for the voiceless. She is hope for the hopeless. We got Jamel Hill

1:17.3

today. Jamel Hill. What the fuck are you doing? I'm my brain sister.

1:28.7

Bragging. Yeah. I'm trying to represent. Bragging. Bragging. How you doing Jamel? I'm

1:35.1

good. I'm good. Just a pleasure to be here. It's sitting across from you. I fell

1:38.6

old thinker like myself. Okay. You and me met in Orlando because you came to my show

1:45.1

at a nightclub. I was me and Jean Grey performing. I will say that generally speaking, I have

1:52.1

what I call wax celebrity. And it says that it never works for anything that I really

1:56.4

want to do. But in that case, I will not lie. I use my ESPN is to get backstage. So I

2:03.5

could meet you because you're definitely one of my favorite rappers of all time. Hence

2:08.7

the shirts. Right. Yeah. I like that shirt. I was going to speak when I was a wonderful

2:11.9

shirt. I won't lie. It's probably bootleg. It is. I can pay for it. I have a respiration

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