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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.
Talib Kweli
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Talib Kweli
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 3
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Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.
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Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
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God gave us music, so we play with our words.
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By the time you get into other kinds of music - R&B, country, or whatever - it becomes something that's romantic. It becomes something unattainable. Never-ending undying love. And in hip hop, we're still taking direct inspiration.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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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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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.
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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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They ask me what I'm writing for - I'm writing to show you what we're fighting for.
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Life is a beautiful struggle.
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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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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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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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Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
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I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.
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Hip-hop is a vehicle.
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It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big pop hits, actually some of the biggest pop hits that hip-hop has ever seen, people are missing that part of their story. People are not counting that blessing.
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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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Consider me the entity within the industry without a history of spitting the epitome of stupidity.
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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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