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My rhymes are like shot clocks, interstate cops and blood clots, my point is your flow gets stopped.
Talib Kweli
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Talib Kweli
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 3
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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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War is not civilized.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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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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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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When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.
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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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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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A flower that grow in the ghetto know more about survival than the one from fresh meadows.
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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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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.
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I tour whether I have album out or not. I tour more than any other hip-hop artist.
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And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.
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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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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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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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