Talib Kweli headlines Hip Hop Live! tour

You would think that there is nowhere to go but down after you collaborate on a single with the second most awesome man at Princeton University, Cornel West. (The first being, naturally,  Stephen Kotkin, everyone's favorite MC and Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History.)

But Talib Kweli can bounce back from such accomplishments and keep soaring, which is why he's one of the four participants of the Hip Hop Live! Tour. On the tour, Kweli, David Banner, Little Brother, and B.O.B. will be fronted by the Rhythm Roots Allstars, which will let you get your rhymes and your orchestration for the price of one.

Hip Hop Live! tour dates:

September
28 - San Diego, Calif. Canes *
30 - Los Angeles, Calif. House of Blues *

October
2 - San Francisco, Calif. @ Grand Ballroom *
3 - Portland, Ore. @ Roseland *
4 - Eugene, Ore. @ McDonald Theater *
5 - Seattle, Wash. @ Showbox SoDo *
8 - Boulder, Colo. @ Fox Theater *
10 - Minneapolis, Minn. @ First Avenue *
13 - Bloomington, In. @ Bluebird *
18 - Athens, Ga. @ Georgia Theatre #
19 - Asheville, N.C. @ Orange Peel #
20 - Washington, D.C. @ 9:30 Club #
23 - Philadelphia, Pa. @ Trocadero #
24 - Boston, Mass. @ Showcase Live! #
25 - New York, N.Y. @ Nokia Theatre #

* with Little Brother
# with B.O.B.

Related links:
HipHopLiveTour.com
Feature: Talib Kweli - Searching for a Hip-Hop Second Life
Talib Kweli on MySpace

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