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Talib Kweli: Can't Tell Me Nothing

August 17, 2007

Believe it or not, Talib Kweli cares what you think of him. His eyes - barely visible behind his gold-framed, brown-tinted Aviator lenses - gaze inquisitively at the notepad every time the observant young reporter before him touches pen to paper. Even while seated in a fifth-floor office at VIBE's Manhattan headquarters, the Brooklyn-born lyricist voices his discontent with the magazine's review of his latest project, Eardrum. "They didn't give the album enough credit," says the 31-year-old Kweli, who read the review in our August 2007 issue moments earlier. "My album was way better than [the critic] said it was. She's going to eat her words." ... (read more)

Soulful Revelation

August 9, 2007

Why Lauryn and Janis' issues with men weren't so revelatory after all.Before Rasta boy Jon Forte wearily spoke of inmates finding the Lord behind the bars of FCI Loretto, before Wyclef Jean flipped battle rhymes on Brooklyn blockhuggers in Haitian, before and Biggie got shot,-- Lauryn Hill, the vintage skirt-rocking poster child of hip-hop's nappy revolution in the later 90s, was having problems with men.... (read more)

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Roses y Handcuffs

It gets quiet. Then he says, "you heard Ye's "Street Lights" yet?" In between those six words, lingers a heavier question then what's being breathed o (read more)
The Nappy Diatribe

The last few days, watching the liberal blogosphere act like a bunch of whining malcontents as they clumsily hyperventilate over Obama picking Hillary (read more)
Invite Only

THE SPOT: 74 Leonard Street between Broadway and Church, Nov 24, 2008. It's raining but we must press on because this is, in fact, is a VIBE event and (read more)
zentronix d+h

We now have some idea of how hip-hop may have impacted the presidential election. According to stats from CIRCLE, those under the age of 45 delivered (read more)