{"id":1960838,"date":"2025-08-14T21:35:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T21:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1960838"},"modified":"2025-08-14T21:35:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T21:35:17","slug":"talib-kweli-is-headed-to-columbia-heres-how-to-hear-the-iconic-rapper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/talib-kweli-is-headed-to-columbia-heres-how-to-hear-the-iconic-rapper\/","title":{"rendered":"Talib Kweli is headed to Columbia. Here&#8217;s how to hear the iconic rapper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"\" data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One of hip-hop heads&#8217; most beloved artists will alight upon The Blue Note this fall when Talib Kweli comes to town for a Nov. 7 date, the venue announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;One of the most critically successful rappers of his time,&#8221; <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/artist\/talib-kweli-mn0000158801#biography\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:as AllMusic notes;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">as AllMusic notes<\/a>, the Brooklyn native broke through in the late 1990s with Black Star, his duo with Mos Def. Kweli&#8217;s first solo record, &#8220;Quality,&#8221; hit the atmosphere in 2002 and achieved gold status.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The artist has focused on collaboration during the first half of this decade, making albums with Black Star, Madlib, Diamond D and J. Rawls.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>DJ Talib Kweli performs at the Elementz Block Party in Over-the-Rhine on Friday after his appearance at the Cincinnati Music Festival.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Kweli&#8217;s most recent solo record, 2017&#8217;s &#8220;Radio Silence,&#8221; was &#8220;a jazzy, soulful call to action, a think-piece and a middle-finger to the trolls who claim he fell off,&#8221; <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/exclaim.ca\/music\/article\/talib_kweli-radio_silence\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Exclaim's Riley Wallace wrote at the time;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Exclaim&#8217;s Riley Wallace wrote at the time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In their announcement, The Blue Note dubbed him &#8220;one of the most lyrically-gifted, socially aware and politically insightful rappers to emerge in the last 20 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tickets for the Nov. 7 show go on sale Friday; learn more at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thebluenote.com\/event\/talib-kweli\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/thebluenote.com\/event\/talib-kweli\/;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/thebluenote.com\/event\/talib-kweli\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>Aarik Danielsen is the features and culture editor for the Tribune. Contact him at adanielsen@columbiatribune.com.<\/em>\u00a0<em>He&#8217;s on Twitter\/X @aarikdanielsen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>This article originally appeared on Columbia Daily Tribune: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.columbiatribune.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/08\/14\/rapper-talib-kweli-coming-columbia-mo\/85659092007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:How you can hear beloved rapper Talib Kweli in Columbia this fall;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">How you can hear beloved rapper Talib Kweli in Columbia this fall<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of hip-hop heads&#8217; most beloved artists will alight upon The Blue Note this fall when Talib Kweli comes to town for a Nov. 7 date, the venue announced Thursday. &#8220;One of the most critically successful rappers of his time,&#8221; as AllMusic notes, the Brooklyn native broke through in the late 1990s with Black Star, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1960839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[345265,345263,345264],"class_list":["post-1960838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-solo-record","tag-talib-kweli","tag-the-blue-note"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Talib-Kweli-is-headed-to-Columbia-Heres-how-to-hear.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1960838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1960839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1960838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1960838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1960838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}