Idle Warship
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Idle Warship is a musical duo composed of Brooklyn emcee
Rapping
Rapping refers to "spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics". The art form can be broken down into different components, as in the book How to Rap where it is separated into “content”, “flow” , and “delivery”...

 Talib Kweli
Talib Kweli
Talib Kweli Greene , better known as Talib Kweli, is an American hip-hop artist and poet from Brooklyn, New York. His first name in Arabic means "student" or "seeker" ; his in Swahili means "true"...

 and Philadelphia singer Res, Res has appeared on each Talib Kweli album since 2000's Train of Thought
Train of Thought (Reflection Eternal album)
Train of Thought is the debut album of American hip hop duo Reflection Eternal, released October 17, 2000 on Rawkus Records. Collaborating as a duo, rapper Talib Kweli and DJ and hip hop producer Hi-Tek recorded the album during 1999 to 2000, following their individual musical work that gained...

. They have also toured together, including on the summer 2005 MGD
Miller Brewing Company
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 Flavor 2 Savor mini-tour. They released their debut mixtape, Party Robot, on October 27, 2009 for free. This was originally set for a 2008 release and announced on Talib Kweli's MySpace
MySpace
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 page in a New Year's blog entry.

Idle Warship has released numerous new songs via their MySpace page, including "Industry Diary," "Screamin'" featuring mc chris
Mc chris
mc chris is an American rapper, voice actor, writer and improvisational comedian....

, "Pull It Out" featuring Dapa Flex, "Fall Back" featuring Chester French
Chester French
Chester French is an American indie pop band consisting of lead vocalist and songwriter David-Andrew 'D.A.' Wallach and multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Maxwell Drummey...

, among others.

The group released their debut album Habits of the Heart
Habits of the Heart
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 on November 1, 2011.

Singles

  • 2008: "Screamin'" (Featuring mc chris
    Mc chris
    mc chris is an American rapper, voice actor, writer and improvisational comedian....

    )
  • 2008: "Black Snake Moan"
  • 2008: "Get Up and Dance"
  • 2008: "Steady"
  • 2008: "Say You Will"
  • 2008: "Try It On howwedoitoverhere"
  • 2008: "Fall Back" (Featuring Chester French
    Chester French
    Chester French is an American indie pop band consisting of lead vocalist and songwriter David-Andrew 'D.A.' Wallach and multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Maxwell Drummey...

    )

Collaborations

  • 2000: "Too Late" (from Reflection Eternal
    Reflection Eternal
    Reflection Eternal is a hip hop duo composed of emcee Talib Kweli and DJ Hi-Tek. They released their first album, Train of Thought, in 2000...

    's Train of Thought
    Train of Thought (Reflection Eternal album)
    Train of Thought is the debut album of American hip hop duo Reflection Eternal, released October 17, 2000 on Rawkus Records. Collaborating as a duo, rapper Talib Kweli and DJ and hip hop producer Hi-Tek recorded the album during 1999 to 2000, following their individual musical work that gained...

    )
  • 2002: "Where Do We Go" (from Talib Kweli's Quality
    Quality (album)
    Quality is rapper Talib Kweli's first solo album. It was released on November 19, 2002 under Rawkus Records. It received wide critical acclaim and had some commercial appeal from the song "Get By" produced by Kanye West...

    )
  • 2004: "Going Hard" (from Talib Kweli's The Beautiful Struggle
    The Beautiful Struggle
    The Beautiful Struggle is the second solo album by American rapper Talib Kweli. The album was released in 2004, and features guest appearances by rappers such as Common and Jean Grae...

    )
  • 2004: "We Got the Beat" (from Talib Kweli's The Beautiful Struggle)
  • 2005: "7:30" (from Talib Kweli's Right About Now (Bonus Edition)
    Right About Now: The Official Sucka Free Mix CD
    Right About Now: The Official Sucka Free Mix CD or simply Right About Now was released by Talib Kweli in November 2005 and is generally considered a mixtape. However, some people regard this release as an official album because of its availability through commercial sites and its release of two...

    and 2004's The Beautiful Mix CD)
  • 2007: "Soul Music" (from Talib Kweli and Madlib
    Madlib
    Otis Jackson Jr. in Oxnard, California, known professionally as Madlib, is a Los Angeles-based DJ, multi-instrumentalist, rapper, and music producer...

    's Liberation
    Liberation (Talib Kweli and Madlib album)
    Liberation is a collaboration between Talib Kweli and Madlib. It was made available as a free download from Stones Throw's Rappcats website, and Kweli and Madlib's MySpace pages for the first week of 2007, beginning New Year's Eve 2007. It was removed about a week later...

    )
  • 2007: "Everything Man" (from Talib Kweli's Eardrum
    Eardrum (album)
    Eardrum is the fourth solo album from American hip hop artist Talib Kweli. The album was his Warner Bros. Records debut with his first album on his own label, Blacksmith Records. It was engineered by Joel Hamilton, Ryan Kennedy, Mike Houge and Dave Dar. Eardrum was released on August 21, 2007 on...

    )
  • 2008: "TRY IT ON (HOWWEDOITOVERHERE)"
  • 2009: "Back Again" (from Reflection Eternal
    Reflection Eternal
    Reflection Eternal is a hip hop duo composed of emcee Talib Kweli and DJ Hi-Tek. They released their first album, Train of Thought, in 2000...

    's "Revolutions per Minute
    Revolutions per minute
    Revolutions per minute is a measure of the frequency of a rotation. It annotates the number of full rotations completed in one minute around a fixed axis...

    ")
  • October Minute 27, 2009: "Party Robot"
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