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Toure Show

Talib Kweli–I Am An MC

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Society & Culture, Arts, Performing Arts

4.8880 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Touré Show Ep 313: Talib Kweli–I Am An MC Original Air Date: March 2, 2022 The new Black Star album is almost here so I talked to Talib Kweli and got the story of how it got made. It was not an easy road. We also talk about how Kweli feels he’s gotten better as an MC, how he writes rhymes, why he’s sometimes writing songs on shrooms, and more. An epic hiphop conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Okay, ready. I want to know some things she's something.

0:15.0

I think about everyone you need

0:21.0

all in these things are brutal now,

0:25.0

I have here, seeing you wanting you, hey.

0:29.3

Good sort of race show, okay, though. Good sort of race show, okay though. That might be the best question I've ever been on. This is 10 songs.

0:44.0

This is very similar to how we did the first album.

0:51.0

The first album is 10 songs of beats that I went and

0:58.0

collected a bunch of beats and then I went to wherever Yassine was at and I sat and played him

1:05.7

some beats and he starts coming up with amazing ideas.

1:09.6

We should do this, we should try that, I like this beat, I like that, that beat that that be and I make mental notes and then I just

1:14.8

figure out a way to get him in the studio that's that's how the first album was made you know and but the

1:21.5

first album there wasn't there were no mobile studio so I had to actually I had to actually hire car services and have them waiting downstairs

1:30.0

you know they're like you know we have a car downstairs. We could go to Funky Slice right now.

1:35.8

We could go to Power Play, right? We could go to Flatnam Island right now. But now the new plays,

1:41.5

now I'm like, yo, the engineers in the hotel room with the mic that you like right now

1:45.8

We can we can do it right now

1:49.7

Tullib quality has been my man for a very long time.

1:54.3

I met him before he became a rap star.

1:56.0

When I met him, he told me,

1:58.0

yo, I'm gonna be a rap star

2:00.1

and something in the way he said it.

2:03.0

I was like, yo, I completely believed this kid.

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