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I support the idea that artists have to make a stand. I'm with that - you're putting the discussion on the table and you're letting people know. You're being brave as an artist and responsible to the community.

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Talib Kweli
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 3
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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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My rhymes are like shot clocks, interstate cops and blood clots, my point is your flow gets stopped.
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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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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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God gave us music, so we play with our words.
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But there's so many things in life like women, like children, like God and family that transcends the world of hip-hop.
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Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals.
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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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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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I just got a new manager. He's like, So what do you want to do with the deejay thing? I'm like, The deejay thing for me is more my hobby. It's great when you can supplement your income, when you have a weekly or something, it's fun. It's really a hobby, because I don't want it to take away from what I do, which is emceeing.
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I look at the deejay thing as a tier thing. If I'm not going to compete on that level, I'm just going to do it as a hobby.
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I think people are into me because of my music choices and my musicality.
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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 met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18.
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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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Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
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The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.
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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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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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