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Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.
Talib Kweli
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Talib Kweli
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 3
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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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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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I don't care if Rick Ross is 40 years old -- he's a misguided 40-year-old person.
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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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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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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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