REVIEW | TALIB KWELI CELEBRATES 50 YEARS OF HIP-HOP AT THE JAZZ CAFE LONDON

Legendary Hip Hop Emcee Talib Kweli returned to a sold out Jazz Café along­side DJ Spin­telect to deliv­er exactly what you would expect from Talib Kweli live show.

A flaw­less lyr­ic­al mas­ter­class fea­tur­ing some under­ground Hip Hop Clas­sics for you too rap along with and remin­isce over a more simplist­ic time before TIK­TOK and A.I. Where a Hip Hop crowd con­sisted of folks who would come to a show to get rocked for two hours and there wouldn’t be a single phone out.

Tonight I looked around to see a few famil­i­ar faces and some faces I was genu­inely shocked to see like the Sug­ar­Hill Gang and the Furi­ous 5 who happened to be in town for the night.

With this being the 50th Anniversary of Hip Hop, Talib didn’t hes­it­ate to invite the Hip Hop Icons onstage to run through a mont­age of Clas­sic cuts like ‘Rap­pers Delight’, ‘The Mes­sage’ and ‘White Lines’
For me per­son­ally this was the first time in my Hip Hop Life that I got to see these clas­sics per­formed live so it was def­in­itely a Hip Hop check­list moment.

Kweli hit us with some with some new cuts taken from his latest album with Madlib ‘Lib­er­a­tion 2’ and the recent Black­star album ‘No Fear Of Time’ (Also seen here)before run­ning through clas­sic cuts from the Reflec­tion Etern­al and his vari­ous solo albums.
Talib also took time out to share his thoughts on recent con­tro­ver­sies before send­ing the crowd home happy with per­form­ances of ‘Get By’ ‘The Blast’ and ‘I Try’ This was anoth­er mas­ter­ful Talib Kweli Jazz Cafè per­form­ance which is up there with some of the very best he’s delivered over the last Twenty plus years.

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SKANDOUZ .

Hip Hop Artist / Act­iv­ist / Journ­al­ist / Fun lov­ing indi­vidu­al @SKANDOUZ (On Errr’thang )

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Hip Hop Artist / Activist / Journalist / Fun loving individual @SKANDOUZ (On Errr’thang )