Talib Kweli

16.02.03

I'm sitting in my room last night, enjoying a calm Saturday evening at home after the week's excitement. I head over to Imesh to start my downloads back up again, and decide to look up Morcheeba's "Trigger Hippie" 'cause my original version has a bit of a scratch.

And there I stumble across something else. Oh, you guys, it's just sooo good. So good I gotta share it. Right now.

If you like really calm, chill hip hop, please give it a listen. Even if you think "hip hop is only guns and alcohol," this is a guy that makes references to Norman Mailer in his songs and represents a group of philosophical, intelligent hip hop artists with something worthwhile to say (did you not all listen to the album Blackstar? Mindblowing.). He works with Mos Def, who has been mentioned here already (and who I happen to think is fine as hell).

The man in question is Talib Kweli, and this song is a real gem he's produced with Morcheeba. I love the both of 'em. But this song is just great. Rarely do I hear a song that makes me stop everything for a minute, cock my head to one side, and contemplate. But this song did it.

I don't know what the song is called, but it uses a loop from Morcheeba's second album Big Calm, called "Let Me See." A song I have always liked but never loved. And Talib's rhyming over it just...ooo...delicious. I got ridiculously excited about it. I hope you do too.

Full bio to come later in the music section. I just couldn't wait. I'll just call it "Let Me See," but I'm sure that's not the name.

Download it here: download no longer available, contact me to find out how to get it.

(PS Spelling in filename is incorrect, but I'm too lazy to re-upload it onto my server just for a spelling error. Just in case you wanted to investigate further.)