Talib Kweli and Madlib release a free album

January 6, 2007 4:13 AM

Talib Kweli and Madlib have released a free album (zip). It fucking rocks.
posted by Tlogmer (35 comments total)

Cheers.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 4:35 AM on January 6, 2007

Previous collaboration: "Raw Shit" by Jaylib f/ Talib Kweli
posted by rxrfrx at 4:49 AM on January 6, 2007

[this is good]
posted by roboto at 4:54 AM on January 6, 2007

Hm. Lib is still the best. Talib Kweli still needs to learn that less is more, and that 18 sixteenth notes won't fit in a bar.
posted by rxrfrx at 4:57 AM on January 6, 2007

As linked to on the Rappcats site, here is a funny/scary Man Parrish video.

Haven't listened to the album as yet.
posted by asok at 5:09 AM on January 6, 2007

Damn. Nice!
posted by Drexen at 5:25 AM on January 6, 2007

God I love Kweli. Any number of notes that he sees fit to shoehorn into a single bar is OK with me. Thanks, Tlogmer.
posted by CRM114 at 5:38 AM on January 6, 2007

"Now whatchu know about that?" Oh yes. Most appreciated, thanks for the post.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 5:47 AM on January 6, 2007

Awesome. This is the first post in a long time I've thought realy counts as "best of the web" b/c it's awesome, and it's sometrhing that couldn't happen without the web. 3 cheers for generous musicians and the technology that lets them give us music.
posted by eustacescrubb at 5:48 AM on January 6, 2007

Suggestion: get track 2 ("Funny Money") going on your iTunes or whatever, then open this on top of it. (Quicktime audio: "Hollerin & Whoopin", from the FPP I just posted above this one.) Shit works.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 5:54 AM on January 6, 2007

Good shit, ta muchly.
posted by MetaMonkey at 6:46 AM on January 6, 2007

the meek shall inherit the earth!
posted by phaedon at 6:59 AM on January 6, 2007

Great post, Tlogmer, thanks.

rxrfrx, back up offa Kweli.
posted by ibmcginty at 7:53 AM on January 6, 2007

Cool, thanks.
posted by sveskemus at 8:14 AM on January 6, 2007

Nice! Been a while since I've Kweli'ed out.
posted by fenriq at 8:15 AM on January 6, 2007

Very nice.
posted by everichon at 8:59 AM on January 6, 2007

that's cool.
posted by furtive at 9:19 AM on January 6, 2007

Fantastic, thanks.
posted by dazed_one at 9:22 AM on January 6, 2007

Ah, what a great Saturday gift! Thanks, Tlogmer!
posted by LooseFilter at 9:34 AM on January 6, 2007

Saw a link for this last night on the Stones Throw site, but didn't realize that it was an entire album. Awesome. Thanks.
posted by grabbingsand at 9:37 AM on January 6, 2007

Am I missing something, or is this free 10 track album 9 tracks?

Also, this is awesome.
posted by chunking express at 9:41 AM on January 6, 2007

thank you!
posted by jrb223 at 10:23 AM on January 6, 2007

Haven't heard it yet but that can't help but rock.
posted by fungible at 10:26 AM on January 6, 2007

thanks
posted by caddis at 10:58 AM on January 6, 2007

Good stuff thanks!
posted by fleetmouse at 11:42 AM on January 6, 2007

cool, thnx.
posted by j-urb at 4:21 PM on January 6, 2007

this is great, cheers
posted by Mil at 8:02 PM on January 6, 2007

Talib Kweli still needs to learn that less is more, and that 18 sixteenth notes won't fit in a bar.

This doesn't make sense to me. If there are 18 sixteenth notes then they do fit into a bar...of 5/4. If there's 18 notes in a 4/4 bar then he's not singing sixteenth notes.
/nitpick

This is awesome, thanks!
posted by Bistle at 9:46 PM on January 6, 2007

of course it would be 5/4 if there were 20 sixteenth notes...i'll just go away now.
posted by Bistle at 9:47 PM on January 6, 2007

Very nice. Appreciate it.
posted by Cyclopsis Raptor at 10:38 PM on January 6, 2007

Mmm, delicious Madlib (and Mr. T. Kweli, who I missed seeing open for The Roots because he was literally ill).

People who haven't should definitely check out his collaboration with MF Doom, Madvillainy.
posted by sparkletone at 11:13 PM on January 6, 2007

To add on sparkletone's comment, people should also check out the "Madvillainy preview" that was leaked to P2P a little while before the real release. It's first drafts of some of the tracks, and there are a few different instrumentals in there. I like it better than the real thing.
posted by rxrfrx at 5:20 AM on January 7, 2007

Hey, check Kweli's New Year's message. I definitely agree, we should all read more!
posted by flapjax at midnite at 6:29 AM on January 7, 2007

Fuck I got a 404 message!! Anyone know someplace else I can get it?
posted by afx114 at 11:01 AM on January 7, 2007

Just got around to listening to this ...great stuff.

afx114, if you are still paying attention to this thread, e-mail (in profile) me.
posted by Otis at 6:56 PM on January 26, 2007