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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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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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Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
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Everybody could write, deejay, rap. Everybody could do it all.
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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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My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York University. So he listened to, you know, Motown, and he listened to Bob Dylan. He listened to Grateful Dead and Rolling Stones, but he also listened to reggae music. And he collected vinyl.
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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 don't care if Rick Ross is 40 years old -- he's a misguided 40-year-old person.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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Hip-hop is a vehicle.
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Fortunately, artists can live off their works, if you're creative at how you do it. If you just depend on the videos and the radio, you're at a loss.
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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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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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Harry Belafonte hit me to the Dream Defenders and I liked what they were about. When I asked them how I could help their movement, they said, You can help by coming down here you can tweet.
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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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If lyrics sold then truth be told/I'd probably be just as rich and famous as Jay-Z.
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I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
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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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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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I have a luxury of people coming to see me whether I play for the crowd or not. I don't take that lightly.
Talib Kweli
I have such respect for the art of deejaying. I hesitate to even call myself a deejay.
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