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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
Musician
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Rapper
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Brooklyn
New York
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Music is not an exact science so depending on the time and the mode and the energy when we do it that will determine what happens with it.
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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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I have such respect for the art of deejaying. I hesitate to even call myself a deejay.
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Truthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense
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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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Now people won't beat you up if you are gay they might just talk behind your back.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?
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Let me finish my music, and let me present it the way I want to present it. And then share it, put it online, do whatever you want to do after that.
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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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And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.
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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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I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
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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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Life is a beautiful struggle.
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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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Art Imitates life, of course, is that phrase by Oscar Wilde. I called that song Art Imitates Life because Oh No was in the studio and he actually came up with that hook. When I was trying to figure out a name for the record, it just kind of made sense.
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I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET. I'm not, at this point, gunning for like, Oh, I'm gonna kill them in the first week. But as people slowly discover the album they realize it's better than a lot of what they've been listening to all year.
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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 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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