Who Is In Black Star: Black Star, with Yasin bey and Talib Kweli, made their SNL debut this week. Friend and podcast collaborator Dave Chappelle arranged for the rappers to perform.
What Is Black Star?
Talib Kweli and Yassin Bey are one half of the rap group Black Star (formerly Mos Def.) Washington Square Park in New York City is where Bey and Kweli first crossed paths in the early 1990s, at one of Kweli’s ciphers.
They also did open-mic poetry readings together. Bey, DCQ, and Ces would later create Urban Thermo Dynamics, while Kweli made his debut on “Transforeify” (1994) by Mood.
As reported by All Music, Bey and Kweli collaborated on a track titled “Freestyle,” which appeared on a Rawkus records collection in 1997. Talib Kweli and Mos Def Are Black Star came out a year later.
Sales were strong, and the album peaked at No. 53 on the Billboard 200 despite competing with Jay-Vol. Z’s 2, OutKast’s Aquemini, and A Tribe Called Quest’s The Love Movement.
Kewli told NPR in May 2022, “The messaging in the Black Star record, the first one, resonates now.” And what we were saying wasn’t all that far from what others were saying at the time, such as Amiri Baraka and the Black Arts movement, or Nina Simone and her final performances.
The achievements of our forefathers have allowed us to reach great heights. Black art is a vital aspect of the American artistic tradition and has contributed greatly to the development of the canon.
People of African descent in the United States have always served as a nation’s guiding moral force, innovators in the arts, and creators of some of the most distinctively American works.
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Do You Know About Talib Kweli’s Early Life?
Park Slope in Brooklyn was Talib Kweli’s home before he moved to Manhattan in his teens. His mother teaches English at Adelphi, and his father works in administration there. Jamal, his younger sibling, is his brother.
Kweli attended Brooklyn Technical High School and later transferred to Connecticut’s Cheshire Academy. He attended New York University to get a degree in experimental theatre.
Kweli made his debut as a recording artist on Mood’s album “Doom” in 1997, performing as a guest on a few tracks. In addition, he collaborated with rap artist and producer Hi-Tek on underground albums such as Reflection Eternal. Songs like “Fortified Live” and “B-Boy Document 99/Chaos” were released early on by the group.
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Do You Who Yassin Bey (formerly Mos Def.) Is?
Mos Def, whose given name at birth was Dante Terrell Smith, entered the world on December 11th, 1973. He and his mother, Sheron Smith, raised him in Brooklyn, New York, while his father, Abdulrahman Smith, stayed in New Jersey.
His first acting roles were in middle school, while he was still living in Bushwick, Brooklyn (he is the oldest of a total of twelve children). While developing in New York City, he took part in a number of arts programs and performed in several off-off-Broadway productions.
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