Talib Kweli - The Beautiful Struggle
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"If lyrics sold, I'd probably be as rich and famous as Jay-Z," notes a rueful Talib Kweli on his second solo album. He has a point. The New Yorker is an exceptionally skilled MC with plenty to say. However, he has struggled even to escape the shadow of his schoolfriend and sometime collaborator Mos Def, hardly a household name himself. The Beautiful Struggle highlights his problem. Kweli's default musical setting is that dreary soul-jazz hybrid that seems to come as standard with every socially...
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