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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.

Talib Kweli

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Talib Kweli
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 3
Musician
Poet
Rapper
Singer
Songwriter
Brooklyn
New York
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Even
Amplified
Loss

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When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.
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I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.
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Hip-hop is a vehicle.
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I support the idea that artists have to make a stand. I'm with that - you're putting the discussion on the table and you're letting people know. You're being brave as an artist and responsible to the community.
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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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They ask me what I'm writing for - I'm writing to show you what we're fighting for.
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You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.
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Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.
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I was always rhyming and doing it for the love before I found out I was gonna have children and when I found out, doing it for the love wasn't enough.
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Jazz is the greatest American art form and our greatest export. We don't pay attention to the youth of jazz, don't stoke the fires creatively for the youth coming up. I feel like jazz musicians became too much of purists - with Donald Byrd doing funk jazz in the '70s.
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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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Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
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By the time you get into other kinds of music - R&B, country, or whatever - it becomes something that's romantic. It becomes something unattainable. Never-ending undying love. And in hip hop, we're still taking direct inspiration.
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I try to count the blessings rather than the problems.
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Life is a beautiful struggle.
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Everybody could write, deejay, rap. Everybody could do it all.
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God gave us music, so we play with our words.
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It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big pop hits, actually some of the biggest pop hits that hip-hop has ever seen, people are missing that part of their story. People are not counting that blessing.
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The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.
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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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