Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star [Explicit Content]Black Star: Mos Def, Talib Kweli (rap vocals). Additional personnel: Apani, Common, Jane Doe, Vinia Mojica, Weldon Irvine. Producers: DJ Hi Tek, Talib Kweli, Mr. Walt, Shawn J. Period, J. Rawls. While Puff Daddy and his followers continued to dictate the direction hip hop would take into the millennium, Mos Def and Talib Kweli surfaced from the underground to pull the sounds in the opposite direction. Their 13 rhyme fests on this superior, self titled