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Everybody could write, deejay, rap. Everybody could do it all.
Talib Kweli
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Talib Kweli
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 3
Musician
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Rapper
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Brooklyn
New York
Talib Kweli Greene
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Rap
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War is not civilized.
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No one likes to be treated like people in minority communities. What it's saying is that because you're poor, because you live in a neighborhood that deals with oppressed conditions, you deserve to be treated like a criminal. In our Constitution it says you have the right to live without illegal search and seizure.
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The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.
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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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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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