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When I met you it was magic... We polar opposites, but attracted like we was magnets.
Talib Kweli
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Talib Kweli
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 3
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I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET. I'm not, at this point, gunning for like, Oh, I'm gonna kill them in the first week. But as people slowly discover the album they realize it's better than a lot of what they've been listening to all year.
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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 ignored your aura but it grabbed me by the hand, like the moon pulled the tide, and the tide pulled the sand.
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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 think its man's nature to go to war and fight.
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Who you? Your name smaller than fine grains in couscous It's the highest calibre, your calibre is deuce deuce
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I don't care if Rick Ross is 40 years old -- he's a misguided 40-year-old person.
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Artists make art for themselves. Art is an honest expression. Artists who pander to their fans by trying to make music for their fans make empty, transparent art. The true fan does not want you to make music for them, they want you to make music for you, because that's the whole reason they fell in love with you in the first place.
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But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.
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Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
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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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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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I have such respect for the art of deejaying. I hesitate to even call myself a deejay.
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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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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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Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
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