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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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Brooklyn
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So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output.
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If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.
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My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York University. So he listened to, you know, Motown, and he listened to Bob Dylan. He listened to Grateful Dead and Rolling Stones, but he also listened to reggae music. And he collected vinyl.
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Why give you the cure when the disease makes money?
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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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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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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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I try to count the blessings rather than the problems.
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Harry Belafonte hit me to the Dream Defenders and I liked what they were about. When I asked them how I could help their movement, they said, You can help by coming down here you can tweet.
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I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.
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To be honest, that whole exchange with Crunk Feminist actually made me write the song because I realize there's a lot of young women out there so hurt by the misogynistic images in hip-hop they paint it with such a broad brush stroke that they think anybody that defends hip-hop is defending misogyny.
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I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.
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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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Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.
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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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Now people won't beat you up if you are gay they might just talk behind your back.
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Hip-hop is a vehicle.
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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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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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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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