How you can hear beloved rapper Talib Kweli in Columbia this fall

One of hip-hop heads' most beloved artists will alight upon The Blue Note this fall when Talib Kweli comes to town for a Nov. 7 date, the venue announced Thursday.

"One of the most critically successful rappers of his time," as AllMusic notes , the Brooklyn native broke through in the late 1990s with Black Star, his duo with Mos Def. Kweli's first solo record, "Quality," hit the atmosphere in 2002 and achieved gold status.

The artist has focused on collaboration during the first half of this decade, making albums with Black Star, Madlib, Diamond D and J. Rawls.

Kweli's most recent solo record, 2017's "Radio Silence," was "a jazzy, soulful call to action, a think-piece and a middle-finger to the trolls who claim he fell off," Exclaim's Riley Wallace wrote at the time .

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