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This is the world we are living in, this is the world that Talib Kweli wants us to change, a world in which we should start listening to someone like Bresha Meadows rather than ignoring her. His kicker is an indictment of a society in which the poorest, the most in need are ignored and left for dead: “From video games to war as we solve our problems with violence / It’s how we speak / They either want your death or your silence.” The way Kweli tells it, the gun was not her first choice: “But what about her brothers, she couldn’t leave her mother / They told the cops, but all that did was make him treat ’em rougher,” and then “Why bother when the system support her father / Gradually her thoughts got darker,” he raps.
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Kweli spends most of the song telling us the true story of Bresha Meadows, a 14-year-old girl in an abusive household who eventually felt she had no option other than to shoot her father to free her house from the terror of his anger. There is not anger throughout Radio Silence so much as there is urgency, as though there’s something that Kweli needs to tell us but he’s running out of time, and there is no song that combines that urgency with the themes of speaking up and listening like the beautiful, difficult “She’s My Hero”. Or, perhaps more to the point: we’re not listening. A few listens in, though, and another interpretation comes to bear: we can’t hear each other. Radio Silence is the name of his latest album, and at face value, that title is a winking allusion to the rarity of hearing a Talib Kweli track on your local top-40 station. He’s done his time in the business, he’s been good to and for the game, and it’s been good enough to him in return to offer a platform and a steady paycheck. He is a deft rapper whose work is shockingly approachable for someone who never caters to the mainstream. I’ve never had a rap beef in my life.” People may not be fans of his, people may disagree with his political stances, but nobody seems to be able to bring themselves to disrespect his skill at his craft. As he said in his fantastic essay on white fragility from a couple years ago: “Rap beef is about rap. Perennially under the radar - though to be fair, never all that far under the radar - Kweli gets by on respect. You’ve never seen him holding a Pepsi in a Super Bowl ad or buying a stake in a local sports team.