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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.
Talib Kweli
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Talib Kweli
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 3
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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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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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I have a luxury of people coming to see me whether I play for the crowd or not. I don't take that lightly.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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With Prisoner of Conscience, the focus was - I've worked with Madlib, High Tech, Kanye West, J Dilla. I feel like I've worked with some of the greatest of all time. That's been overlooked. That's been overshadowed by the weight of the lyrics.
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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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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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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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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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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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They hope for the Apocalypse like a self-fulfilling prophecy Tell me when do we stop it? Do they ask you your religion before you rent an apartment? Is the answer burning Korans so that we can defend Islamics?
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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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You can have your own opinion, but not your own facts.
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There just needs to be a gay rapper who's better than everybody. That's when that question will no longer be able to be asked.
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Truthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense
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When I met you it was magic... We polar opposites, but attracted like we was magnets.
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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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If lyrics sold then truth be told/I'd probably be just as rich and famous as Jay-Z.
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I have enough rhythm to blend at this point. I have enough rhythm to blend one song into another. But man, I have such respect for the art of deejaying. I hesitate to even call myself a deejay.
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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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