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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.
Talib Kweli
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Talib Kweli
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 3
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My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York University. So he listened to, you know, Motown, and he listened to Bob Dylan. He listened to Grateful Dead and Rolling Stones, but he also listened to reggae music. And he collected vinyl.
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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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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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War is not civilized.
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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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I don't care if Rick Ross is 40 years old -- he's a misguided 40-year-old person.
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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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I listened to a mind joint, and I wanted to do my own version of it, and what you hear on my mixtape is my take on what the whole CD sounds like.
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I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.
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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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Who you? Your name smaller than fine grains in couscous It's the highest calibre, your calibre is deuce deuce
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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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To be honest, that whole exchange with Crunk Feminist actually made me write the song because I realize there's a lot of young women out there so hurt by the misogynistic images in hip-hop they paint it with such a broad brush stroke that they think anybody that defends hip-hop is defending misogyny.
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If lyrics sold then truth be told/I'd probably be just as rich and famous as Jay-Z.
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If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.
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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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The most important time in history is - NOW - the present, So count your blessings cause time can't define the essence.
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I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.
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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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