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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?
Talib Kweli
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Talib Kweli
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 3
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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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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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You can have your own opinion, but not your own facts.
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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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Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
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If you ain't using all the talents God provided you with For the betterment of Man, understand, You ain't nothing but a waste.
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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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Truthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense
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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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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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My rhymes are like shot clocks, interstate cops and blood clots, my point is your flow gets stopped.
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I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.
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When I met you it was magic... We polar opposites, but attracted like we was magnets.
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If lyrics sold then truth be told/I'd probably be just as rich and famous as Jay-Z.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.
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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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