Hip-hop in Vevey –
Talib Kweli tackle Donald Trump
The rapper, a figure of the American underground, performed at the Rocking Chair. Critical.
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Talib Kweli in Nashville, Tennessee, in 2020.
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- Talib Kweli captivated the audience at the Rocking Chair in Vevey.
- The New York rapper has not forgotten his activist commitment.
- He addressed political themes while presenting his new album.
First of all, maximum respect to the first DJ who made the RKC affair groove, this Wednesday, November 6. New York hip-hop was in the place… Talib Kweli, rapper associated with Mos Def in the collective imagination and in certain aspects of his discography, was scheduled in Vevey.
For a quarter of a century, hip-hop aficionados have assured anyone who will listen that hip-hop could no longer do without MC Talib Kweli, the personification of so-called “conscious” rap and the supposed guardian of a certain rap undergound .
Either. Let’s just say that before hearing the pure product of Brooklyn’s upper class, you had to shake your ass a little with unfeigned enthusiasm, in the upper class room of Vevey. Faced with a won over audience of amazed thirty-year-olds and informed forty-year-olds, the MC does not abandon the field of activism but above all seems to want to talk about his latest album.
Talib Kweli, Wednesday November 6 at the Rocking Chair in Vevey.
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Fake. The master of ceremonies does not forget the coincidences of the calendar. During the day, Donald Trump has just flouted the united hopes of New York and LA And of Talib Kweli, certainly, who does not forget, therefore, to recall that certain red lines are good to observe: that of rape and fascism.
It’s not about bowing your head to fans of the underground. The 49-year-old rapper does not miss the opportunity to be political by recalling good practices, while taking care of the rockets of his flow.
Rap concerts are often disappointing, but the 49-year-old veteran’s concert retained the spontaneity and energy of someone who is still trying to “crack” the code of revolution. Stay online. With Taleb Kwel, alternative pioneer hip-hop persisted superbly. For how long? Perfect timing from the RKC.
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