''That Was One of the Illest Conversations That I Ever Seen''
6:00AM ET February 7th, 2013
Contributor : Chris G.
A Rocky Williform Company

In an interview with MTV, Talib Kweli revealed an intense conversation between Sean "Diddy" Combs and Kweli's Black Star bandmate Mos Def. After the duo performed at a Lyricist Lounge event in 1997, Kweli says that Diddy took exception to some criticism of R&B sampling in hip-hop at the time.

"It was a Lyricist Lounge event that night, and I think [the Notorious] B.I.G. had just passed away a couple of weeks before," he recalled. "We were working on the Black Star album and Yasiin jumped up and did a verse for 'Children's Story' and Diddy was in the house...Diddy came through and he came and wanted to talk to me and Mos about [how] he felt a way about the record, about what Mos was saying onstage. Mos told him, 'It wasn't directed at you personally. It's directed at everything that's going on in the business.' That was one of the illest conversations that I ever seen."