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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.
Talib Kweli
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Talib Kweli
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 3
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My rhymes are like shot clocks, interstate cops and blood clots, my point is your flow gets stopped.
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Let me finish my music, and let me present it the way I want to present it. And then share it, put it online, do whatever you want to do after that.
Talib Kweli
You can have your own opinion, but not your own facts.
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Life is a beautiful struggle.
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I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.
Talib Kweli
Art Imitates life, of course, is that phrase by Oscar Wilde. I called that song Art Imitates Life because Oh No was in the studio and he actually came up with that hook. When I was trying to figure out a name for the record, it just kind of made sense.
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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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Who you? Your name smaller than fine grains in couscous It's the highest calibre, your calibre is deuce deuce
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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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When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.
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A flower that grow in the ghetto know more about survival than the one from fresh meadows.
Talib Kweli
As far as being on a major label, some labels get it and get what they have to do, and some labels don't. I don't think the label I'm on necessarily gets it, but I think over time they're gonna have to.
Talib Kweli
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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The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.
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Consider me the entity within the industry without a history of spitting the epitome of stupidity.
Talib Kweli
Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.
Talib Kweli
Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.
Talib Kweli
I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
Talib Kweli
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.
Talib Kweli
If lyrics sold then truth be told/I'd probably be just as rich and famous as Jay-Z.
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