Talib is a legend but let's be real

[grYmes]

Depends on who you ask. Personally to me he's a great MC. He has some great albums under his belt (Quality is a classic IMO). Tho even on that album he had a lot of greats like Black Thought & Pharoahe Monch turn in great verses. I have no fault in him being called a legend but it's personal taste I suppose.

 

[huey]

Imo, Talib won with his verse on Respiration but by a slight margin

for me its mos def, then talib/common

 

[T. Sanford]

Imo, Talib won with his verse on Respiration but by a slight margin

for me its mos def, then talib/common

Now I listen to the song again. I cosign this post. Mos Def did flame that b*tch

 

[D.Original]

In his defense the list of mcz that outshined is pretty much all legends. And he still holds his own.

Id put kweli in my top 40 -50.

 

[KNiGHTS]

Poltergeist with Gucci he smoked him(expected) & I thought he had the best parts on guerilla monsoon rap (very debatable)

I always feel like talib gets outshined if he is a feature or has a feature. Always.

Was juuuuuuuuuuuust about to highlight those. He killed Poltergeist. He needs more beats like that. Think Talib suffers from what a lot of lyricists/conscious rappers do: he sucks at finding suitable beats. They either pick beats that are grating on the nerves and interfere with your ability to catch their bars or they pick shit that's a great fit for a feature, so they're forgotten after the feature gets busy.

 

[BobOblah]

You don't have to call him a legend but he's one of the GOATs off his catalog easily. And yall can stop acting like Blackstar and Reflection Eternal is all he has and relisten to these albums and then his other 10 albums

He's one of the best to ever do it. Now for this accusation that he gets outshined on tracks idk, I gotta do some listening. I'll be back in this thread tomorrow with my cape fastened.

 

[its....JOHN B]

Inspectah deck shined on all his collabos on WU albums but probably has the worst catalog out the group, I can post plenty songs where Nas got outshined, doesn't mean Deck is the best out the group or Nas wasn't the better artist, this thread didn't have to be made

 

[MECCA1000]

He has grown as a lyricist.... because if you followed him from the start, he came in shaky ..... I thought he had lyrics from day one but just couldn't catch up to the beat to save his life. Few albums later and dude is rocking ........I haven't even thought about it but he might make it into my top 25

 

[Negro_Caesar]

I can't listen to kweli. Dude is hella boring

 

[JonnyRoccIT]

Legend?!?

 

[Ether44mag]

see it's like this : not all the players in the basketball Hall Of Fame are legends,,,

Talib is in the hip hop hall of fame but not a LEGEND

Nas

Jay

Rakim

Big Daddy Kane

Big Pun

Biggie

Tupac

Ice Cube

Snoop....

this is the kinds of names that resonate withe the word LEGEND Talib is with guys like Pharoe Monche ,Cassidy, Beanie sigel ,Lupe ...those are not Legends basically anyone you could say are UNDERRATED...cant be LEGENDS !

 

[MallyG]

One of the most underrated albums of the 2000's IMO. If u don't know, get familiar!

 

[playmaker88]

Agreed Kweli is the shit..

but you know everyone loves a gimmick i appreciate the down to the nitty gritty nothin but the lyrics definitely on of my faces

 

[BedStuy]

Talib Kweli >>> J.Cole

 

[TheGOAT]

Talib Kweli >>> J.Cole

Somebody @ all the JCole stans

Lets get this thread poppin

 

[TheGOAT]

see it's like this : not all the players in the basketball Hall Of Fame are legends,,,

Talib is in the hip hop hall of fame but not a LEGEND

Nas

Jay

Rakim

Big Daddy Kane

Big Pun

Biggie

Tupac

Ice Cube

Snoop....

this is the kinds of names that resonate withe the word LEGEND Talib is with guys like Pharoe Monche ,Cassidy, Beanie sigel ,Lupe ...those are not Legends basically anyone you could say are UNDERRATED...cant be LEGENDS !

CoSign

 

[JonnyRoccIT]

Talib Kweli >>> J.Cole

Cole got his boring ass Style from Kweli and added that lightskint nigga touch to it

 

[CeLLaR-DooR]

Mos was outshining talib all up and down that blackstar album

Came into say this

Mos got one of hip hop's GOAT verses on Thieves in the Night

 

[BobOblah]

To be fair Mos Def is better than almost anyone he's on a track with. And Kweli wasn't getting blown outta the water, he always kept up and held his own on a high level just like Big Boi always kept up with 3 stacks

 

[BobOblah]

Talib Kweli >>> J.Cole

Somebody @ all the JCole stans

Lets get this thread poppin

Lol I'm not a stan of anyone but I would fall under the category of big fan of both of these two.

Yes Kweli> Cole

Kweli has been consistently dropping good music for 15 years and Cole doesn't have an album as good as Kweli's top 3 or 4 albums