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Talib Kweli
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 3
Musician
Poet
Rapper
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Brooklyn
New York
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But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.
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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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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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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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When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.
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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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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 isn't as complex as a woman is.
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Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.
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I think people are into me because of my music choices and my musicality.
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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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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
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My parents are my biggest influences. My parents and my city. Brooklyn, New York, New York City, the community I grew up. I don't feel like I'm special in that. I feel like that's everybody.
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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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My fans like to be romantic. I feel like I'm creating at least at the same level or even a higher level of creativity than I was at twenty-one. I've gotten better as an artist.
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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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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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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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Truthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense
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