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Talib Kweli Speaks On Possible Dave Chappelle/Chris Rock Tour

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Last month, Dave Chappelle got the entire entertainment world talking when he playfully spoke with Chris Rock about doing a possible tour together. Chappelle performed a surprise show in New York City and was shortly joined by Rock, Kevin Hart, Marlon Wayans, ?uestLove and Bill Bellamy in a legendary night of comedy that was shockingly not captured on camera except for a few instagram photos. “After next Tuesday, I’m free for like 11 years,” said Chappelle. Rock suggested although he has filming in the works this spring, he’s open to the idea. “I’ve got time between now and the movie,” said Rock. “By Halloween, I could do dates.”
Hip-Hop Wired caught up with Talib Kweli, who was in Austin, TX with Samsung performing at their Galaxy Sound stage for the South By Southwest festival and spoke on the possibility of that tour coming to fruition. “Dave is a friend. I’ve known Dave before either one of us were really known,” explained Kweli, who appeared on Chappelle’s Show and Dave Chappelle’s Block Party. “I do shows with Dave once in a while. Dave likes to have a full theatrical experience so I’ll DJ in-between his sets. Dave will get up and talk at a comedy club for four or five hours some nights.” “He basically does what he wants to do. I think that’s what all of us are striving for,” the Reflection Eternal rapper continued. ”He comes out and he loves doing shows but he does them when he feels like it. He does hang out with Chris Rock, he does hang out with Chris Tucker, he hangs out with a lot of comedians.” While you might have to just pick a night and have a stroke of good luck to see Chappelle live, Kweli says not to count a tour out just yet. “People love to see those type of guys together. I don’t know if they are [going to do the tour]. I ran into Chris Rock the other night, and he was joking about it. He was like “I’m you Kweli and Dave Chappelle is Mos Def. So who knows?”

via:hiphopwired.com

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Big Daddy Kane Forms New Super Group With The Lifted Crew & Showtyme

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Big Daddy Kane Forms New Super Group With The Lifted Crew & Showtyme

Big Daddy Kane discusses his new super group Las Supper with Showtyme and the Lifted Crew.

It’s been over a decade since Big Daddy Kane released his last album Veteranz Day, but now, the Brooklyn emcee is coming back with a new super group project Las Supper. In a recent interview with Fuse, Kane discussed his new project with singer Showtyme and live Hip Hop group the Lifted Crew. Kane explained that the group’s album Back to the Future merges the sounds of ’60s and ’70s soul wtih his classic Hip Hop stylings, and was recorded over live instrumentation. ”The album is called Back to the Future, and we came together collectively – myself Big Daddy Kane, Showtyme, who sings with Pharoahe Monch, and the Lifted Crew – and we basically merged together…[with] three different units coming together as one to form Las Supper,” he said, “What we tried to do is basically bring back the vintage ’60s and ’70s soul – which you see a lot of people doing [including] Sharon Jones, Amy Winehouse, [and] Raphael Saadiq – but combining it with vintage Hip Hop, like the stuff that I was doing from the beginning of my career [in] the Public Enemy, Rakim KRS-One era…[we're] doing it over nothing but live instruments – live guitar, live trumpet, even on down to the glockenspiel.”

He added, “The chemistry has just been so great. I’ve enjoyed working with these guys, we’re always laughing, having a good time, and then when we connect, it could be where something that was supposed to be very simple, once we connect on it, we end up taking it to a whole another level.” Most recently, Kane released a single produced by DJ Premier titled “28 Bars of Kane” in honor of the new Air Jordan XX8 sneaker release. Check out the second part of Fuse’s interview with Kane, in which the Juice Crew alum discusses working with Jay-Z and earning praise from Dave Chappelle.

via: hiphopdx.com