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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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Talib Kweli
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 3
Musician
Poet
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Brooklyn
New York
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When I met you it was magic... We polar opposites, but attracted like we was magnets.
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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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As far as my New York influence, one thing I'm proud of in my career is, I rep Brooklyn, New York all day. But people don't look at my music as New York music. People consider my music underground music.
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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 like the fact that I can rep New York, but my style does not - I'm not trapped in a New York thing. I can do art songs with other artists and it's seamless.
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I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.
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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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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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Everybody could write, deejay, rap. Everybody could do it all.
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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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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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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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Unfortunately hip-hop is so competitive that in order for fringe groups to get in, you gotta be better than whoever's the best. So before Eminem, the idea that there would be a white rapper that anybody would really check for was fantastic or amazing or impossible.
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Fortunately, artists can live off their works, if you're creative at how you do it. If you just depend on the videos and the radio, you're at a loss.
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But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.
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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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