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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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Compromise

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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.
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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'm not looking to set a standard... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work.
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Unfortunately hip-hop is so competitive that in order for fringe groups to get in, you gotta be better than whoever's the best. So before Eminem, the idea that there would be a white rapper that anybody would really check for was fantastic or amazing or impossible.
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Who you? Your name smaller than fine grains in couscous It's the highest calibre, your calibre is deuce deuce
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I think people are into me because of my music choices and my musicality.
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I look at the deejay thing as something - I'm good at it because I have my own music. I have enough rhythm to blend at this point.
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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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As far as my New York influence, one thing I'm proud of in my career is, I rep Brooklyn, New York all day. But people don't look at my music as New York music. People consider my music underground music.
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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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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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Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.
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As far as being on a major label, some labels get it and get what they have to do, and some labels don't. I don't think the label I'm on necessarily gets it, but I think over time they're gonna have to.
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Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.
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I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.
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Fortunately, artists can live off their works, if you're creative at how you do it. If you just depend on the videos and the radio, you're at a loss.
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I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.
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Love is blind, you just see bright light
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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Consider me the entity within the industry without a history of spitting the epitome of stupidity.
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