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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.
Talib Kweli
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Talib Kweli
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 3
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I just got a new manager. He's like, So what do you want to do with the deejay thing? I'm like, The deejay thing for me is more my hobby. It's great when you can supplement your income, when you have a weekly or something, it's fun. It's really a hobby, because I don't want it to take away from what I do, which is emceeing.
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My parents are my biggest influences. My parents and my city. Brooklyn, New York, New York City, the community I grew up. I don't feel like I'm special in that. I feel like that's everybody.
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Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
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War is not civilized.
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But there's so many things in life like women, like children, like God and family that transcends the world of hip-hop.
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Love is blind, you just see bright light
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Why give you the cure when the disease makes money?
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With Prisoner of Conscience, the focus was - I've worked with Madlib, High Tech, Kanye West, J Dilla. I feel like I've worked with some of the greatest of all time. That's been overlooked. That's been overshadowed by the weight of the lyrics.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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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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If lyrics sold then truth be told/I'd probably be just as rich and famous as Jay-Z.
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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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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 was always rhyming and doing it for the love before I found out I was gonna have children and when I found out, doing it for the love wasn't enough.
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They ask me what I'm writing for - I'm writing to show you what we're fighting for.
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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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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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