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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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Talib Kweli
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 3
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Brooklyn
New York
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