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If lyrics sold then truth be told/I'd probably be just as rich and famous as Jay-Z.
Talib Kweli
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Talib Kweli
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 3
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The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.
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God gave us music, so we play with our words.
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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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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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I listened to a mind joint, and I wanted to do my own version of it, and what you hear on my mixtape is my take on what the whole CD sounds like.
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The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.
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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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Truthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense
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If you ain't using all the talents God provided you with For the betterment of Man, understand, You ain't nothing but a waste.
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Life is a beautiful struggle.
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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 ignored your aura but it grabbed me by the hand, like the moon pulled the tide, and the tide pulled the sand.
Talib Kweli
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.
Talib Kweli
I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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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.
Talib Kweli
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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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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But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.
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We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.
Talib Kweli
Jazz is the greatest American art form and our greatest export. We don't pay attention to the youth of jazz, don't stoke the fires creatively for the youth coming up. I feel like jazz musicians became too much of purists - with Donald Byrd doing funk jazz in the '70s.
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