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Talib Kweli
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 3
Musician
Poet
Rapper
Singer
Songwriter
Brooklyn
New York
Talib Kweli Greene
Love
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Light

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When you have a voice and a platform and you know better, it becomes your moral obligation to support that community. And by extension, you're supporting your family.
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So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output.
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But Rawkus is integral to what I do, because the cats who started Rawkus are the first ones who really saw my vision, and gave me a platform to get it out there, so I'm definitely totally grateful for that.
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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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The most important time in history is - NOW - the present, So count your blessings cause time can't define the essence.
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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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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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God gave us music, so we play with our words.
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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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Why give you the cure when the disease makes money?
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I listened to a mind joint, and I wanted to do my own version of it, and what you hear on my mixtape is my take on what the whole CD sounds like.
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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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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'm not looking to set a standard... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work.
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Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
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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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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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They hope for the Apocalypse like a self-fulfilling prophecy Tell me when do we stop it? Do they ask you your religion before you rent an apartment? Is the answer burning Korans so that we can defend Islamics?
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Consider me the entity within the industry without a history of spitting the epitome of stupidity.
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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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