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The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.
Talib Kweli
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Talib Kweli
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 3
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Brooklyn
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