The Time I Got Cursed Out By Rapper Talib Kweli

Ohhh the memories…

Miami Beach, FL/USA — August 13, 2017: Van Jones shares the stage with Taleb Kweli at the Filmore on Miami Beach. Van Jones is a CNN Reporter/Contributor on his “We Rise Tour”.

Well, not necessarily, cursed out. More like cursed out adjacent. The fiery incident was connected with Kweli’s Twitter exchange, which led to him being suspended from the app in 2020. Talib had a spirited — for lack of a better term — conversation with another Twitter user, Maya Moody, after she commented about colorism and rappers marrying women with lighter…