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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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Talib Kweli
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 3
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Brooklyn
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I tour whether I have album out or not. I tour more than any other hip-hop artist.
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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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It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big pop hits, actually some of the biggest pop hits that hip-hop has ever seen, people are missing that part of their story. People are not counting that blessing.
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If you go to a college campus and you do stop and frisk, you're going to find a lot of drugs there too.
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I ignored your aura but it grabbed me by the hand, like the moon pulled the tide, and the tide pulled the sand.
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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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I try to count the blessings rather than the problems.
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Why give you the cure when the disease makes money?
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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 think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.
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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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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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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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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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When I met you it was magic... We polar opposites, but attracted like we was magnets.
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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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Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.
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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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Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
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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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