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Talib Kweli
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 3
Musician
Poet
Rapper
Singer
Songwriter
Brooklyn
New York
Talib Kweli Greene
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Signed

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A true artist does not depend on radio for success. A true fan does not let radio determine what they support
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Consider me the entity within the industry without a history of spitting the epitome of stupidity.
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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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A flower that grow in the ghetto know more about survival than the one from fresh meadows.
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Truthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense
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I try to count the blessings rather than the problems.
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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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Love is blind, you just see bright light
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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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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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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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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To be honest, that whole exchange with Crunk Feminist actually made me write the song because I realize there's a lot of young women out there so hurt by the misogynistic images in hip-hop they paint it with such a broad brush stroke that they think anybody that defends hip-hop is defending misogyny.
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But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.
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But Rawkus is integral to what I do, because the cats who started Rawkus are the first ones who really saw my vision, and gave me a platform to get it out there, so I'm definitely totally grateful for that.
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I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.
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I look at the deejay thing as a tier thing. If I'm not going to compete on that level, I'm just going to do it as a hobby.
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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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I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out of the bank until I saw how Citi Bank responded to Occupy Wall Street.
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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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