KRS-One

Last night, at the "Rock to Save Darfur Concert-Benefit," City Councilman Eric Gioia told Talib Kweli that he'd like to replace Mos Def as the other half of Blackstar. Kweli laughed and shook his head.

Gioia was at B.B. King's Blues Club in Times Square, along with a handful of hip-hop artists and human rights activists, as one of the sponsors of a City Council resolution asking the New York City pension fund to divest from Sudan.

“I’ve been working on this for about two years, and its kind of a lonely fight,” Gioia told me backstage before he addressed the crowd.  read more »

Here’s rapper KRS-ONE (of the famed South Bronx-Queensbridge feud), who joined a rally on the City Hall steps today to protest cutbacks in public funding for community groups that serve young people.

Afterwards, I asked him a few questions about politics, and specifically, Barack Obama.  read more »