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Everybody could write, deejay, rap. Everybody could do it all.

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Talib Kweli
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 3
Musician
Poet
Rapper
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Songwriter
Brooklyn
New York
Talib Kweli Greene
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Deejays
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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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By the time you get into other kinds of music - R&B, country, or whatever - it becomes something that's romantic. It becomes something unattainable. Never-ending undying love. And in hip hop, we're still taking direct inspiration.
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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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If lyrics sold then truth be told/I'd probably be just as rich and famous as Jay-Z.
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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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When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.
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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'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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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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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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When I met you it was magic... We polar opposites, but attracted like we was magnets.
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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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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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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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I look at the deejay thing as something - I'm good at it because I have my own music. I have enough rhythm to blend at this point.
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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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But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.
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I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. Im looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate.
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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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War is not civilized.
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