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“Traveling Light” is another of the album’s stronger moments, as he collaborates with Canadian producer/DJ/electronic music artist Kaytranada, who provides a horn-heavy track.
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On the lyrical end, Kweli is in rarified form, proclaiming “I'm in these streets like potholes / Where the guns make Illinois to Chicago” and “I spit it like I just finished gargling the velocity marvelous / Get your goggles we hit it at full throttle.” He then professes to kick that “high Valyrian rap, looking for my Khaleesi / The ones that Ebro call minor leaguers the real fire-breathers.” It also establishes the tone for the album’s overall soundscape. The beat sports the hallmarks of a quintessential Alchemist production, but still sounds unmistakably like the type of track Kweli would rhyme over. The Alchemist creates a majestic-sounding track, built around guitars and soaring vocals. The album begins with “Magic Hour,” a brief track that features Kweli laying down a one-verse barrage of explosive lyrics and punchlines. The strong core musicality sets Radio Silence apart from many hip-hop albums, but still sounds logical and natural. It features fewer tracks than usually appear on a Kweli album, but it’s more musically ambitious than many of his previous projects.
In some ways, Radio Silence is closest to Kweli’s version of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. The production is heavy on live instrumentation and feels much more lush than previous efforts. Radio Silence is the product of two years of recording on Kweli’s part, as it’s apparent that he was working to create an album that sounds unlike anything that already exists in his catalogue, but still retains the flavor of a Kweli album. With this release, he’s created an album that demonstrates his well of creativity is far from dry, and that he’s always game to take chances with his music and try to cover new musical and lyrical ground.
And now, half a year later, Kweli is already back with his long-gestating eighth solo album, Radio Silence. With well over a dozen projects to his name, he seems intent on continuing to produce music, never content with resting on his laurels, always striving to put out his best material.Įarlier this year, Kweli recorded the incredibly dope The Seven EP with Styles P, ostensibly to support a tour that they were undertaking. Talib Kweli has become a consummate workhorse over the span of his two-decade career.