Talib Kweli Says “Fortified Live” Got Him His First Record Deal
The voice of Reflection Eternal takes you back in the latest from VIBE‘s 60/60 series:
“Me and Hi-Tek had a little EP called Ground Ish [and] I was trying to get them to put out the first song from that and by mistake I played the song Fortified Live from my cassette tape. I wasn’t even trying to play that record in the meeting and they heard it and they were like, ‘What’s that?’ And I said, “Oh, this some shit we working on” and it wasn’t mixed or nothing. They was like, “’We can put that out right now and we can give you a video.’ And that was my first record with them.”
That joint was hot.
{mp3}03 fortified live f_mos def khaliyl{/mp3}
Sidebar: YN will be at the Black Star reunion show this weekend. Flip cam armed and dangerous. Proceed with caution.
that artwork is incredible
It’s NOT “Ground Ish” and…the EP was called “Groundation”.
One.