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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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Rapper
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Brooklyn
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Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals.
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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 try to count the blessings rather than the problems.
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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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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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Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
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I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. Im looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate.
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War is not civilized.
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I ignored your aura but it grabbed me by the hand, like the moon pulled the tide, and the tide pulled the sand.
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Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.
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I have a luxury of people coming to see me whether I play for the crowd or not. I don't take that lightly.
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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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Truthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense
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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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Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.
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Jazz is the greatest American art form and our greatest export. We don't pay attention to the youth of jazz, don't stoke the fires creatively for the youth coming up. I feel like jazz musicians became too much of purists - with Donald Byrd doing funk jazz in the '70s.
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But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.
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You can have your own opinion, but not your own facts.
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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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Consider me the entity within the industry without a history of spitting the epitome of stupidity.
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