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Talib Kweli

Founder
Javotti Media

Talib Kweli is an American hip-hop artist, activist and founder of independent label, Javotti Media. He is also a member of the rapping duo Black Star. The Brooklyn-based rapper earned his stripes as one of the most lyrically-gifted, socially aware and politically insightful rappers to emerge in the last 20 years. His travels around the globe as one of rap’s most in-demand performers combined with his conversations with political activists and his genre-straddling work with Idle Warship and others caused Kweli to realize that he was limited in a sense, a prisoner of sorts of his own success as one of the world’s best rappers with something significant to say.

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