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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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Talib Kweli
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 3
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There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.
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Now people won't beat you up if you are gay they might just talk behind your back.
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God gave us music, so we play with our words.
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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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And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.
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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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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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Everybody could write, deejay, rap. Everybody could do it all.
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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 have such respect for the art of deejaying. I hesitate to even call myself a deejay.
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Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
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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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I think people are into me because of my music choices and my musicality.
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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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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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I look at the deejay thing as something - I'm good at it because I have my own music. I have enough rhythm to blend at this point.
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I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.
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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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Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.
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I try to count the blessings rather than the problems.
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