Kweli‘s penchant for packing tons of syllables into a single bar used to get away from him, making him sound like he was about to lose his breath a lot of the time. He’s gotten away from that a lot, but when he does it here, it sounds more like urgency than verbosity. This was one of my favorite hip-hop songs of 2010, and it’s Kweli at his best: smart, pointed, angry.
Random Midday Hotness: Ballad of the Black Gold.
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Gene "G.D." Demby is the founder and editor of PostBourgie. In his day job, he blogs and reports on race and ethnicity for NPR's Code Switch team.
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