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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 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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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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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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Now people won't beat you up if you are gay they might just talk behind your back.
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You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
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The materialism, the brashness, the misogyny - everything in hip-hop is amplified. Misogyny is a good example of something that is completely amplified in hip-hop. I do think there is more than enough of a balance, though, for fans who are willing to search it out.
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War is not civilized.
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Why give you the cure when the disease makes money?
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Life is a beautiful struggle.
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Everybody could write, deejay, rap. Everybody could do it all.
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There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.
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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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We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.
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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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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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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.
Talib Kweli
I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
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Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
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