Last night, a motley crew of stage and screen stars paid tribute to newly resurgent pop legend Prince at NYC’s Carnegie Hall. Among the performers: D’Angelo, the Waterboys, Elvis Costello, Chris Rock, Maya Rudolph, Talib Kweli, Sandra Bernhard, Nina Persson (the Cardigans), the Blind Boys Of Alabama, Betty Lavette, and Fred A...

Talib Kweli has announced an April 23rd release date for his new studio album, Prisoner of Conscious

Kweli says he didn't collaborate with the Aussie singer and reality TV star

On his new single “Push Thru,” underground rap lifer recruited two of his up-and-coming younger peers in Curren$y and Kendrick Lamar. And in the beautifully photographed new video, directors Scott Fleishman and Fredo Tovar film all three rappers in their native locales: New Orleans, New York, Los Angeles. It helps that all th...

Underground rap veteran Talib Kweli is working on a new album with the utterly detestable title Prisoner Of Conscious, and he’s just released a collaboration with two of the sharpest, most dependably prolific younger MCs on the scene today, Curren$y and Kendrick Lamar. On the track’s hazy, slow-rolling beat, all three guys so...