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But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.

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Talib Kweli
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 3
Musician
Poet
Rapper
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Songwriter
Brooklyn
New York
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So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output.
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When I met you it was magic... We polar opposites, but attracted like we was magnets.
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I have such respect for the art of deejaying. I hesitate to even call myself a deejay.
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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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I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.
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You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
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I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.
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I tour whether I have album out or not. I tour more than any other hip-hop artist.
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Truthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense
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My rhymes are like shot clocks, interstate cops and blood clots, my point is your flow gets stopped.
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A flower that grow in the ghetto know more about survival than the one from fresh meadows.
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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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I have enough rhythm to blend at this point. I have enough rhythm to blend one song into another. But man, I have such respect for the art of deejaying. I hesitate to even call myself a deejay.
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There just needs to be a gay rapper who's better than everybody. That's when that question will no longer be able to be asked.
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God gave us music, so we play with our words.
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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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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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Everybody could write, deejay, rap. Everybody could do it all.
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We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.
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