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Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS

Talib Kweli | How to Craft Lyrical Miracles and EPIC Rhymes with Master Lyricist, Rapper and Entrepreneur

Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS

Clay Clark

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Can Clay convince Talib Kweli to FREE-STYLE RAP on the show? One of the top hip hop lyricists in the game today, Talib Kweli joins us to break down how he crafts lyrical miracles and his process for writing raps.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This show goes out to all the aspiring rappers and lyricists out there because on today's show we are interviewing one of hip-hop's best

0:06.4

Thrive Nation on today's show we are interviewing a man who routinely puts out lyrical miracles but not just he's not just good at rhyming

0:15.9

He's a great entrepreneur and he's an activist and he's right here on the Thrive Time show to leave welcome on to the Thrive Time show

0:22.5

How are you sir?

0:23.5

Let's go Clay how you feeling?

0:26.4

Some shows don't need a celebrity narrator to introduce the show but this show dies

0:32.7

Two men, eight kids co-created by two different women

0:37.6

13 multi-million dollar businesses ladies and gentlemen welcome to the Thrive Time show

0:56.0

Yes, yes, yes, and yes, right nation on today's show we are interviewing one of hip-hop's greats to lead

1:07.6

Quelley welcome on to the Thrive Time show brother

1:10.0

I am fired up to talk to you and I have got all sorts of questions for you about your craft

1:15.9

So I want to ask my friend

1:18.3

You're now known as the lyricist that everybody wants to work with but you had to start somewhere

1:25.2

What was life like for you growing up and and where did you get your start?

1:30.1

I grew up in Brooklyn, New York

1:32.1

I'm holding my craft in the lunchrooms of New York City high schools and

1:37.3

And Washington Square Park and open mics and stuff like that and you know, I just been working. It's been a slow

1:44.2

But rewarding grind and I've worked myself into a place where I'm now, you know, I've done this for a career's worth of time

1:52.9

And I'm but I feel like I'm just just now getting started

1:56.2

Now I want to do I'm gonna play um a a little excerpt of a song that you were on

2:02.1

This is a song you did with Mike Posner called Legacy, okay

2:05.6

I'm gonna queue it up and I'm gonna see if you could kind of I have so many questions for you about the lyrics

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