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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.
Talib Kweli
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Talib Kweli
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 3
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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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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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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 think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.
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Why give you the cure when the disease makes money?
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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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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 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 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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The materialism, the brashness, the misogyny - everything in hip-hop is amplified. Misogyny is a good example of something that is completely amplified in hip-hop. I do think there is more than enough of a balance, though, for fans who are willing to search it out.
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You can have your own opinion, but not your own facts.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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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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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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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 have such respect for the art of deejaying. I hesitate to even call myself a deejay.
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Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.
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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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They ask me what I'm writing for - I'm writing to show you what we're fighting for.
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Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
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