Title:
XXL
Year:
2003
Description:
What Happens when hip-hop’s real bad boy hooks up with the game’s most righteous voice? Thugs and backpacker’s unite: 50 Cent has the questions, Talib Kweli has the answers
As the guest editor of XXL’s 50th issue, 50 Cent was eager to experience life on the other side of the microphone- to ask the questions instead of answering them, his big chance to be a music journalist rather than a rap superstar. (We offered to trade salaries for a month, too. But he turned us down.) His choice of interview subject surprised us: Brooklyn MC Talib Kweli. We shouldn’t have been so surprised, really. After all, G-Unit has remade two of the so called “conscious” rapper’s tracks, “The Blast” and “Get By.” On June 2- while Talib was vacationing in the Trinidadian sun and 50 was home in NYC, preparing for the following days Hot 97 Summer Jam- the two connected for the first time ever, over the phone. We taped it, so you get to listen in.
As the guest editor of XXL’s 50th issue, 50 Cent was eager to experience life on the other side of the microphone- to ask the questions instead of answering them, his big chance to be a music journalist rather than a rap superstar. (We offered to trade salaries for a month, too. But he turned us down.) His choice of interview subject surprised us: Brooklyn MC Talib Kweli. We shouldn’t have been so surprised, really. After all, G-Unit has remade two of the so called “conscious” rapper’s tracks, “The Blast” and “Get By.” On June 2- while Talib was vacationing in the Trinidadian sun and 50 was home in NYC, preparing for the following days Hot 97 Summer Jam- the two connected for the first time ever, over the phone. We taped it, so you get to listen in.
Month:
August
Language:
English
Country:
United States
Date Added:
2019-06-11 18:53:40
Date Added:
2019-06-11 18:53:40
