>But this is what I was worried about:
>
>>Kweli’s absolutely owned his lane when he’s been committed
>to
>>it but now he's jumping around from style to style with no
>>destination in sight.

his early rep was the whiny judgmental hip-hop purist (who, as is still the case, talks a lot about "wack" cats but never ever under any circumstances has the guts to name names)

i think he just is obsessed with not being the guy that he was judged to be when he first came in the game...he desperately doesn't want to be the "backpacker" that all the white kids like

and i don't know him personally so i don't know what's a real reflection (lol) of him as a person, but he just comes across as trying to serve many masters at once with his music, which makes his "old" fans not care and his "new" fans look at him as kind of just a novelty...

plus, he really just comes off as a prick so often it's hard to care...