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I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out of the bank until I saw how Citi Bank responded to Occupy Wall Street.
Talib Kweli
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Talib Kweli
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 3
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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Jazz is the greatest American art form and our greatest export. We don't pay attention to the youth of jazz, don't stoke the fires creatively for the youth coming up. I feel like jazz musicians became too much of purists - with Donald Byrd doing funk jazz in the '70s.
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Hip-hop is a vehicle.
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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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I don't care if Rick Ross is 40 years old -- he's a misguided 40-year-old person.
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War is not civilized.
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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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What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?
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It’s very seductive to focus on what you don’t like as opposed to celebrating all that it is that you do.
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As far as being on a major label, some labels get it and get what they have to do, and some labels don't. I don't think the label I'm on necessarily gets it, but I think over time they're gonna have to.
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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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You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.
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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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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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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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I was always rhyming and doing it for the love before I found out I was gonna have children and when I found out, doing it for the love wasn't enough.
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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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Everybody could write, deejay, rap. Everybody could do it all.
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