Black Star's Mos Def And Talib Kweli Do The Colbert Report

By David Drake, Special to the Tribune Black Star — rappers Mos Def and Talib Kweli — became known as the vanguard of introspective, thoughtful hip-hop with the release of its 1998 debut record, "Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star.Last night, those two underground hip-hop heroes (and Marcus Garvey devotees) corralled a couple thousand heads who'd filled the Fillmore Miami Beach and hustled them aboard the Black Star Line, chanting "Lord, Lord have mercy/All nice and peace

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