Press Handout / Girlie Action



Talib Kweli is one of Twitter's most active and outspoken users. It's not uncommon to see the revered New York rapper's handle retweet and reply to several messages per minute.

Shit, he even retweeted this writer with the quickness on Monday night.

That was until the social network locked the @TalibKweli account following an exchange with another user Tweeting from @MeanTXLawyer and @RealJLVD handles.

As of 4 p.m. EST, the accounts of Kweli and Van Dykes are still compromised.

A press release from Kweli's PR firm, Girlie Action, says that employees at Twitter have told Kweli — who is set to play St. Petersburg's Et Cultura Festival on November 18, just one day after his new album drops — that they will reinstate Kweli’s account if he deletes the tweet stating Jason Lee Van Dyke’s public business information.

"Getting back on Twitter is not my concern," Kweli wrote in a statement. "Allowing a major corporation to say I harassed someone who tweeted me out of the blue making wild racist threats at me and those who support me is."

More details on the @MeanTXLawyer 2014 Tweets that contained racist slurs and incensed Kweli are available in this story at Huffington Post and Kweli's Instagram page.

UPDATE: A previous version of this post included accusations from the Girlie Action press release that CL could not independently corroborate about @MeanTXLawyer and @RealJLVD. This post has since been edited.