Background information
Birth name Talib Kweli Greene
Also known as The Get By Man, Kweli Snitch, The Prince of Brooklyn
Born October 3, 1974 (age 35),South Jamaica, Queens, New York City, New York, U.S.[1]

Origin Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn,New York City, New York,U.S.

Genres
Alternative hip hop

Occupations Rapper, Singer

Years active 1997–present
Labels
Rawkus Records
Geffen
Blacksmith Records / Warner Bros. Records (2005-Present)

Associated acts Black Star, Reflection Eternal,Madlib, Mos Def, Kanye West,The Roots

Website TalibKweli.com


Reading activity:

Now is time for you to practice what you have just studied.

Remember: Skimming= general info.
Scanning= specific info.

Skim the article and match the subheadings 1-4 with each section.

1- Unnecessary risks.
2- Provocation
3- Fellini’s fault!
4- Invasion of privacy

Now you are going to scan the text to answer the multiple choice questions below.

1- The word paparazzi comes from:

a- a character from an Italian movie
b- a character from an American film from an Italian director
c- a character from a Fellini’s movie

2- To “give someone a black eye” in the third paragraph means:

d- to punch someone too hard that you will cause him a bruise.
e- to kill someone from a punch on the face
f- to punch someone causing him to show a bruise around his eye

3- What is the meaning of “going out of their way” in the last paragraph:

g- to leave a place quickly
h- to get what you wanted
i- to bother people

4- Why do the paparazzi go out of their way:

j- to get the best pictures
k- to bother famous people so they put angry faces
l- to gain time so they can take many pictures