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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.
Talib Kweli
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Talib Kweli
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 3
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Hip hop has always been, for us, for artists who are pure to the craft - any place overseas, whether it's Australia, any place in Asia, Germany, Africa, it becomes something where you can still go and work. Hip hop is an import culture. We're spoiled by it here. It's homegrown.
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My parents are my biggest influences. My parents and my city. Brooklyn, New York, New York City, the community I grew up. I don't feel like I'm special in that. I feel like that's everybody.
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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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And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.
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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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