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I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.
Talib Kweli
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Talib Kweli
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 3
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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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Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
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But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.
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And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.
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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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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.
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I try to count the blessings rather than the problems.
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I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.
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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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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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The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.
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As far as my New York influence, one thing I'm proud of in my career is, I rep Brooklyn, New York all day. But people don't look at my music as New York music. People consider my music underground music.
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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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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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Jazz is the greatest American art form and our greatest export. We don't pay attention to the youth of jazz, don't stoke the fires creatively for the youth coming up. I feel like jazz musicians became too much of purists - with Donald Byrd doing funk jazz in the '70s.
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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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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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Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.
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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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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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