Talib Kweli Talks About the New Black Star Album, Meeting yasiin bey, Making “Quality,” Connecting with Dave Chappelle, and More

People's Party with Talib Kweli

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4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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For this special episode, the tables turn as Poet jessica Care moore, along with Jasmin Leigh, interview People’s Party’s own Talib Kweli. This wide-ranging conversation answers so many of the questions we get from fans and listeners! Kweli goes deep on his many famous collaborators, his approach to the new Black Star album "No Fear of Time,", and his relationship with social media. If you’re a fan of Kweli, and understand his place in hip-hop, this is the interview you need. He’s funny, thoughtful, and most of all, bracingly honest. Mentions: BUGS BUNNY MATHEMATICX episode on "The Midnight Miracle" Listen to this episode for free on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bugs-bunny-mathematicx/id1564022392?i=1000556655602 Listen for free on Luminary: https://luminarypodcasts.com/listen/talib-kweli-yasiin-bey-and-dave-chappelle/the-midnight-miracle/bugs-bunny-mathematicx/4b5049c9-cae7-4630-93d1-7ca145909b68

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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 Hattish,
0:18.4	subscribe to the Luminary channel on Apple Podcasts. Please tell us everything that you can tell us
0:24.4	about the Black Star album, the second album, and how you went through what about making it?
0:29.9	Well, Yassine Bay is my brother and shout out to him and he has inspired me to be the best
0:35.6	version of myself, so I really love him for that. Mad Lib is my brother. I did an album Mad
0:41.2	Lib called Liberation, but Yassine has been saying Mad Lib is the best person suited for the Black
0:46.8	Star sound. And so when Yassine was in South Africa and all the stories were going on around him,
0:53.9	I actually went to see him. I stopped my tour for a second and went to see him. And I realized that
1:00.0	I wasn't as concerned or interested in the Black Star album as I maybe thought I was.
1:05.5	And I was more concerned and interested in my brother and my friend.
1:08.8	And what started to happen was as I changed the way in which I changed my attentions behind
1:15.0	my relationship with Yassine, I made it, I intentionally would be like, you know what?
1:18.7	Our relationship is not about music. It's about our brotherhood and our friendship.
1:22.7	I stopped asking about it, stopped thinking about it, stopped caring about it.
1:28.0	And when I did that, it started to happen organically.
1:33.9	I always keep a bunch of Mad Lib beats on me and he good rapper does.
1:39.6	Shout out to you. I'd be around him and we'd be hanging out and he'd be like,
1:46.8	play these beats, play them beats. He starts sketching up things.
1:49.6	Once I realized that he was in the my state of mentality of maybe recording,
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