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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.

Talib Kweli

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Talib Kweli
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 3
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Brooklyn
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Who you? Your name smaller than fine grains in couscous It's the highest calibre, your calibre is deuce deuce
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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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Consider me the entity within the industry without a history of spitting the epitome of stupidity.
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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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Truthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense
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I like the fact that I can rep New York, but my style does not - I'm not trapped in a New York thing. I can do art songs with other artists and it's seamless.
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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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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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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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The materialism, the brashness, the misogyny - everything in hip-hop is amplified. Misogyny is a good example of something that is completely amplified in hip-hop. I do think there is more than enough of a balance, though, for fans who are willing to search it out.
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I think people are into me because of my music choices and my musicality.
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War is not civilized.
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To be honest, that whole exchange with Crunk Feminist actually made me write the song because I realize there's a lot of young women out there so hurt by the misogynistic images in hip-hop they paint it with such a broad brush stroke that they think anybody that defends hip-hop is defending misogyny.
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There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.
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I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET. I'm not, at this point, gunning for like, Oh, I'm gonna kill them in the first week. But as people slowly discover the album they realize it's better than a lot of what they've been listening to all year.
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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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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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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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