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Consider me the entity within the industry without a history of spitting the epitome of stupidity.
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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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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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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I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.
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A true artist does not depend on radio for success. A true fan does not let radio determine what they support
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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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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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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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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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By the time you get into other kinds of music - R&B, country, or whatever - it becomes something that's romantic. It becomes something unattainable. Never-ending undying love. And in hip hop, we're still taking direct inspiration.
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Why give you the cure when the disease makes money?
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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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The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.
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Life is a beautiful struggle.
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Hip-hop is a vehicle.
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I try to count the blessings rather than the problems.
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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 think its man's nature to go to war and fight.
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I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
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