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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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Talib Kweli
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 3
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I try to count the blessings rather than the problems.
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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.
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Life is a beautiful struggle.
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I have enough rhythm to blend at this point. I have enough rhythm to blend one song into another. But man, I have such respect for the art of deejaying. I hesitate to even call myself a deejay.
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I think people are into me because of my music choices and my musicality.
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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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It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big pop hits, actually some of the biggest pop hits that hip-hop has ever seen, people are missing that part of their story. People are not counting that blessing.
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My fans like to be romantic. I feel like I'm creating at least at the same level or even a higher level of creativity than I was at twenty-one. I've gotten better as an artist.
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It’s very seductive to focus on what you don’t like as opposed to celebrating all that it is that you do.
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Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
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We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.
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Love is blind, you just see bright light
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But there's so many things in life like women, like children, like God and family that transcends the world of hip-hop.
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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.
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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.
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Hip-hop is a vehicle.
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You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
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I look at the deejay thing as a tier thing. If I'm not going to compete on that level, I'm just going to do it as a hobby.
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Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.
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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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