Top Five Tweets of the Week

In this week's round-up of the Top Five Tweets of the Week, Talib Kweli gives advice on dealing with people from Texas, Mariah Carey finds it hard to give Twitter her full attention, Wiz Khalifa encourages his followers to get excited about his new album, Estelle turns down Auto-Tune and Tyrese reveals his busy work schedule.

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1. @RealTalibKweli (Talib Kweli): When u have a relationship with someone from Texas, King of the Hill really helps u gain perspective #itelluwhut

2. @MariahCarey (Mariah Carey): The thing about tweeting is, love it, but if U don't STAY on it 24/7& U try & w/b to a tweet from 20 min. ago it be a "C.A.T.M"!...How can one be in the vocal booth singing while tweeting constantly?! It doesn't work Dahhlings! Doesn't WORK Dearest hearts!!!

3. @EstelleDarling (Estelle): #randomtht so yesterday I was asked if I wanted autotune, before I started the (studio) session and told loads of folks request it regardless....Struck me as 'wtf??' Really that's what it is now? No one sings w their real voice anymore???...The question was asked apparently because that's the status quo in studios now...like for real.

4. @RealWizKhalifa (Wiz Khalifa): Just got randomly excited about my album. U shld twist up and do the same...

5. @Tyrese (Tyrese Gibson): TRUTH: I'm working on Transformers 3 & Fast & Furious 5 at the same time! A new album, 2 books, I'm a Great Father, & a K-Town Reality Show!
Top Five Tweets of the Week

Talib Kweli and Hi-tek talk early years of Kanye West's career

Hard Knock Tv's Devi Dev and Nick Huff Barili talk to Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek talk about the early years of Kanye West's career. From Kanye opening up for Kweli to labels not wanting to sign him as a rapper. Kweli says that people didn't see Kanye's vision as an artist and just wanted his beats. Kweli says that he knew "College Drop Out" was a classic when he first heard it. Hi-Tek adds that Kanye is a genius in the same way that Dr Dre is.

I personally remember getting the white label vinyl of "Through The Wire"/ "Two Words" that Kanye paid to press up himself because at that time Def Jam and The Roc weren't pushing him out. I also remember being at the Def Jam office's in NY (during CMJ) with the Rap Attack DJ's telling them that they needed to get behind that record because we were all getting great feedback at our college radio stations. Ye' has come a long way since then! -NHB