The Time I Got Cursed Out By Rapper Talib Kweli
Ohhh the memories…
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 skin complexions. Her initial tweet did not specifically name Kweli as a colorist but listed him as an example of a Black rapper. This led to Talib pressing her to elaborate and justify why he was one of the rappers mentioned in her Tweet. Things took a sharp left at some point, and the rapper laid into Moody with an aggressive line of questioning. Mind you, he was not shy with his use of a variety of expletives.
During the time, I was a fan of Kweli’s and had been a long-time follower of the rapper on Twitter. When I read the exchange between Kweli and Moody, I was genuinely disheartened and disgusted to see him aggressively go back and forth with a young Black woman — half his age — on a social media platform. At best, it seemed petty and a waste of his time. After all, didn’t he have something better to do? And at worst, I found his response to be highly disrespectful and a bit alarming. I wanted to ask him, “who hurt you?”
