Talib Kweli: The Beautiful Struggle

I’ve been listening to a lot of hip hop lately. I’ve always dabbled, but never really been consistent in listening to hip hop. But for the past few months, I’ve had one or two albums in constant rotation. Right now, I have four or five. Growing up, I was never huge into it. Mostly because I was blind to fact that there was a sub-genre called ‘conscious hip hop‘. I hate that name and think it’s ridiculous that the majority of hip hop artists are merely spewing shit from their mouths to catch …

The View From My Desk: k-os

Today was a good day. k-os and his band rocked the shit out of MuchOnDemand! Normally, a band would play a song or two, max. k-os was on the show for the full hour and played 3 songs (MC Murdah, B-boy Stance and Crabbuckit) off his album – as well as a jam at the end with some b-boys breakdancing. Rad shit I tell you!

Note: I know it’s a little blurry, but them dudes were rockin’ the f-o!

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