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Talib Kweli

Last album

September 28, 2004

First published

March 6, 2009

Downloads

1270 albums downloaded

Biography

Talib Kweli (born Talib Kweli Greene, 1975) is a rapper from Brooklyn, New York. He is one of the most prominent rappers in underground hip-hop, and is critically acclaimed frequently, despite not being incredibly commercially successful. His name is Arabic, meaning 'the seeker' or 'student of truth and knowledge'. His parents were both college professors: his mother an English professor, his father a sociology professor.

Albums

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  The Beautiful Struggle Published in 2004

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