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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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Talib Kweli
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 3
Musician
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Brooklyn
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It’s very seductive to focus on what you don’t like as opposed to celebrating all that it is that you do.
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I look at the deejay thing as a tier thing. If I'm not going to compete on that level, I'm just going to do it as a hobby.
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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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Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.
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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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Everybody could write, deejay, rap. Everybody could do it all.
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Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals.
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Love is blind, you just see bright light
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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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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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The most important time in history is - NOW - the present, So count your blessings cause time can't define the essence.
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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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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 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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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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Consider me the entity within the industry without a history of spitting the epitome of stupidity.
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No one likes to be treated like people in minority communities. What it's saying is that because you're poor, because you live in a neighborhood that deals with oppressed conditions, you deserve to be treated like a criminal. In our Constitution it says you have the right to live without illegal search and seizure.
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Why give you the cure when the disease makes money?
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I support the idea that artists have to make a stand. I'm with that - you're putting the discussion on the table and you're letting people know. You're being brave as an artist and responsible to the community.
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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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