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SUMMARY:Talib Kweli
DESCRIPTION:If skills sold, Talib Kweli would have been one of the mos
 t commercially successful rappers of his time. As it was, however, the
  earnest MC became one of the most critically successful rappers of hi
 s time, which dawned in the late '90s when he rapped alongside Mos Def
  and DJ Hi-Tek as part of the group Black Star. This trio of up-and-co
 mers and their widely acclaimed self-titled 1998 album debut, Black St
 ar, helped make Rawkus Records one of the premier underground rap outp
 osts of the late '90s. Kweli and Hi-Tek then collaborated as a duo on 
 Reflection Eternal (2000), which firmly established them apart from Mo
 s Def, who had gone solo. For a moment there, Kweli and his Rawkus ass
 ociates seemed like a full-fledged movement -- a return to the sort of
  hip-hop associated with the so-called golden age. However, it wasn't 
 to be. Rawkus somehow lost its momentum, and its roster sadly disperse
 d, leaving Kweli on his own to carry the torch. He continued his outpu
 t, beginning with a proper solo debut, Quality (2002), and though he d
 idn't rack up towering sales numbers, he remained a critical favorite.
  In fact, he was one of the most admired and respected rappers on the 
 major-label circuit during the mid-2000s, best evidenced by Jay-Z's fa
 mous Black Album rhyme: \"If skills sold, truth be told/I'd probably b
 e, lyrically, Talib Kweli.\"\n\nFor more information visit https://tru
 eskool.com/events/talib-kweli-1
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101112T220000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101112T233000
CATEGORIES:san, francisco, ca
LOCATION:Yoshi's, San Francisco, CA
WEBSITE:http://www.yoshis.com/sanfrancisco/jazzclub/artist/show/1552
URL:http://www.yoshis.com/sanfrancisco/jazzclub/artist/show/1552
CONTACT:(415)655-5600
ORGANIZER:Yoshi's Jazz Club and Japanese Restaurant
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ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Andy She
 pherd":https://trueskool.com/profile/AndyShepherd
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