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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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Talib Kweli
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 3
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Brooklyn
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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War is not civilized.
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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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Let me finish my music, and let me present it the way I want to present it. And then share it, put it online, do whatever you want to do after that.
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God gave us music, so we play with our words.
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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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Unfortunately hip-hop is so competitive that in order for fringe groups to get in, you gotta be better than whoever's the best. So before Eminem, the idea that there would be a white rapper that anybody would really check for was fantastic or amazing or impossible.
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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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Everybody could write, deejay, rap. Everybody could do it all.
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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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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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The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.
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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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