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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.

Talib Kweli

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Talib Kweli
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 3
Musician
Poet
Rapper
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Brooklyn
New York
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I think people are into me because of my music choices and my musicality.
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Let me finish my music, and let me present it the way I want to present it. And then share it, put it online, do whatever you want to do after that.
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I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18.
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No one likes to be treated like people in minority communities. What it's saying is that because you're poor, because you live in a neighborhood that deals with oppressed conditions, you deserve to be treated like a criminal. In our Constitution it says you have the right to live without illegal search and seizure.
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If you go to a college campus and you do stop and frisk, you're going to find a lot of drugs there too.
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If you ain't using all the talents God provided you with For the betterment of Man, understand, You ain't nothing but a waste.
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I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.
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But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.
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Now people won't beat you up if you are gay they might just talk behind your back.
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When I met you it was magic... We polar opposites, but attracted like we was magnets.
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Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
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Everybody could write, deejay, rap. Everybody could do it all.
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If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.
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Who you? Your name smaller than fine grains in couscous It's the highest calibre, your calibre is deuce deuce
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Why give you the cure when the disease makes money?
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The materialism, the brashness, the misogyny - everything in hip-hop is amplified. Misogyny is a good example of something that is completely amplified in hip-hop. I do think there is more than enough of a balance, though, for fans who are willing to search it out.
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I like the fact that I can rep New York, but my style does not - I'm not trapped in a New York thing. I can do art songs with other artists and it's seamless.
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I ignored your aura but it grabbed me by the hand, like the moon pulled the tide, and the tide pulled the sand.
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But there's so many things in life like women, like children, like God and family that transcends the world of hip-hop.
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