BY Kyle Eustice • October 31, 2018
After Talib Kweli revealed he’d been working on album with Kanye West on Wednesday (October 31), thirst for the mythical joint effort got real.
But, it looks like Kweli’s Instagram post wasn’t an attempt to jumpstart the collaborative process after all. Rather, it was a reminder that the Black Star luminary had warned ‘Ye about people out there who would use him — including conservative commentator Candace Owens.
“We started working on one but I stopped going around once it was clear that he wasn’t hearing me re: the Trump/Candace Owens stuff,” Kweli tells HipHopDX via email. “I posted that clip on IG not so much to restart the album, but to remind him that I was warning him thru song about the very people who took advantage of him way before he allowed them to.
“I have a lot of love for Ye but he still has more work to do.”
Earlier this week, ‘Ye announced he was distancing himself from politics. Toward the end of Kweli’s Instagram caption, he welcomed ‘Ye “back.”
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