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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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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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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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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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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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My rhymes are like shot clocks, interstate cops and blood clots, my point is your flow gets stopped.
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When I met you it was magic... We polar opposites, but attracted like we was magnets.
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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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You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.
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Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
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Truthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense
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I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.
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They ask me what I'm writing for - I'm writing to show you what we're fighting for.
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Music is not an exact science so depending on the time and the mode and the energy when we do it that will determine what happens with it.
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Hip-hop is a vehicle.
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Fortunately, artists can live off their works, if you're creative at how you do it. If you just depend on the videos and the radio, you're at a loss.
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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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Now people won't beat you up if you are gay they might just talk behind your back.
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They hope for the Apocalypse like a self-fulfilling prophecy Tell me when do we stop it? Do they ask you your religion before you rent an apartment? Is the answer burning Korans so that we can defend Islamics?
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The materialism, the brashness, the misogyny - everything in hip-hop is amplified. Misogyny is a good example of something that is completely amplified in hip-hop. I do think there is more than enough of a balance, though, for fans who are willing to search it out.
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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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