Word: talib
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...Black Guy, White Music" [Aug. 22]. To suggest that an entire genre of music has not grown and evolved just as its listeners have is simply uneducated. There is more to hip-hop than the mainstream media choose to embrace. There is a whole world of music, from rapper Talib Kweli to hip-hop poet and singer Saul Williams, that isn't a painful "audio beat down." I have a hard time with labels like black music and white music. Why can't people just listen to music, period--rock, rap or whatever they want...
...transformative experience for me...People don’t realize that someone like Tupac gave himself the same type of college education in sociology and philosophy that Harvard students get here, purely of his own volition and interest. People don’t realize that rappers like Mos Def, Talib Kweli, and Nas all have vast amounts of literature and orature behind them that move into their works. As far as school, I’m resolved to change the way that I view my education, because any knowledge I can integrate into a song or into a creation...
...followed the sheikh's advice that afternoon and made it all the way to the southern boundary of Najaf before being turned back by a firefight. Talib said he would take us to a hotel and come for us in the morning, and we agreed to try again, not sure if he would show...
...Talib arrived at eight the next morning. In a taxi with one of his friends. We retraced the route of the day before, moving to the southern border of the city. When we reached the place where we had been scared off by the firefight, we heard the sounds of sustained gunfire and explosions. Talib explained that we would have to walk from there. We gathered our gear and entered into the city. At each corner we asked locals for a way to the medina that would keep us at maximum distance from U.S. forces. We quickly found a place...
...were going. We explained that we wanted to go to the shrine of Imam Ali. "We are going to the shrine,? one said. ?You can follow us." The boy who wanted to show us the way was not older than fourteen. As we went deeper into the city, Talib decided to return to Kufa and left us with the kids as guides...