In Cincinnati, Kweli met Hi-Tek and the two collaborated on a few underground recordings as Reflection Eternal, including "Fortified Live" (1997), and "B-Boy Document 99/Chaos" (1999, featuring The High & Mighty). Kweli made his debut in 1997, with featured five appearances on Doom, an album by Cincinnati, Ohio, group Mood. He later studied experimental theater at New York University. He was previously a student at Brooklyn Technical High School. Kweli was a student at Cheshire Academy, a boarding school in Connecticut. Īs a youth, Kweli was drawn to Afrocentric rappers, such as De La Soul and other members of the Native Tongues Posse whom he had met in high school. His younger brother, Jamal Greene, is a professor of constitutional law at Columbia Law School and a graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School, and former clerk to Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court. His mother, Brenda Greene, is an English professor at Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York, and his father is an administrator at Adelphi University. In 2011, Kweli founded his own record label, Javotti Media.īorn in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, Kweli grew up in a household in Brooklyn's Park Slope. His most recent album, Gotham, was released in 2020. Kweli's musical career continued with solo success including collaborations with producers and rappers Kanye West, Just Blaze, and Pharrell Williams. He earned recognition early on through his collaboration with fellow Brooklyn rapper Mos Def in 1997, when they formed the group Black Star. Talib Kweli Greene ( / t æ ˈ l ɪ b k w ɑː ˈ l iː/ born October 3, 1975) is an American rapper.
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