Brooklyn rapper Talib Kweli is currently rolling through the country with his Prisoner of Conscious Tour.
It stops at the Grog Shop on Wednesday, May 30.
We have a pair of tickets to the show.
Want them? All you have to do is leave us a comment with your favorite Kweli cut, and yeah, it can be something he recorded with Black Star or Reflection Eternal.
We’ll randomly pick a winner on Friday.
This article appears in May 16-22, 2012.
the blast with hi-tek
Get em high with Kanye
just to get by. classic cut.
Get By and In this world it’s too hard to pick just one love him!
definition – blackstar
Listen
The Lions of Hip-Hop….. Whyyyyy-OOOOO
Talib Kweli f/ UGK – Real Women – Mick Boogie – MCEO Mixtape
four women
“Definition” from the 1998 “Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star” album. and the quote that says it best …”We came to rock it on to the tip top. Best alliance in hip hop… why-ooo. I said one two three… It’s kinda dangerous to be a MC. They shot Tupac and Biggie. Too much violence in hip hop… why-ooo”
Just to get by
Theives in the night -blackstar W/ mos def
Definition!!! And get em high!!
Get By (The Black Star album is too amazing to choose only 1.)
Guerrilla Monsoon Rap w/ Black Thought and Pharoahe Monch
Respiration
Give ‘Em Hell was the anthem when I served in the military and Get By…so necessary for motivation against the everday bs
Respiration (w/ Mos Def and Common)
“Get By,” of course
Respiration!!!!
Kweli has so many good songs it is extremely hard to choose. The one that stands out is RESPIRATION with mos def as BLACKSTAR!!!! ” the only pull you got is the wool over your eyes, getting knowledge in jail like a blessing in disguise”
What is Beef? Black Star on Chappelle Show. *Some beef is big and some beef is small, but what y’all call beef is no beef at all…*
Damn! Just to get by….I love that song!! Tell it!
Chitlins And Pepsi with Madlib & Planet Asia.
Chaos ft bahamadia “take that bass out your voice, you talk to me in treble”
Man, so many good songs listed here! I’m gonna throw up something new and say Soul Rebels.
Four Women from Reflection Eternal
The TV got us reachin for stars
Not the ones between Venus and Mars, the ones that be readin for parts
Some people get breast enhancements and penis enlargers
Saturday sinners Sunday morning at the feet of the Father
They need somethin to rely on, we get high on all types of drugs
When, all you really need is love
To get by…
So who won?