Talib Kweli, “In The Red”

Dave Bry
The Awl
Published in
1 min readDec 7, 2010

Here is a new song from Brooklyn MC Talib Kweli, produced by his long-time partner DJ Hi-Tek. (The two often record as a duo called Reflection Eternal.) It’s really good. And so is the video, which was directed by Nim the Dream and looks a bit like one of those old “Cube” print ads painter Mike Thompson did for Marc Ecko. And it makes a nice addition to the list of rap songs that can serve as music history lessons.

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Dave Bry
The Awl

I grew up in New Jersey. I live in New York. I write for the Awl, and also a book called Public Apology, for Grand Central Publishing.