{"id":22127,"date":"2010-12-20T20:11:25","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T19:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=22127"},"modified":"2010-12-20T20:11:25","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T19:11:25","slug":"talib-kweli-talks-about-kanye-west-before-the-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/talib-kweli-talks-about-kanye-west-before-the-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Talib Kweli talks about Kanye West before the fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jGvNPlujOWc?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Talib Kweli sits down with <a href=\"http:\/\/vladtv.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">VladTV<\/a> to speak on his first run-in\/meeting with Kanye at a studio session where Ye was originally looking for Mos Def, but ended up playing some beats for Kwe, which later led to them forming a bond and collaborating on joints such as: <em>Good To You<\/em>, <em>Get By<\/em>, and <em>Guerilla Monsoon Rap<\/em>. He also remembers how a then unsigned Ye wanted to be on Rawkus Records, before landing some placements on Jay-Z\u2019s <em>Blueprint<\/em>, and also reflects on hearing Kanye\u2019s <em>College Dropout<\/em> while on the Electric Circus Tour, and being blown away after listening to the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talib Kweli sits down with VladTV to speak on his first run-in\/meeting with Kanye at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-5KT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}