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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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Talib Kweli
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 3
Musician
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Rapper
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Brooklyn
New York
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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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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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Consider me the entity within the industry without a history of spitting the epitome of stupidity.
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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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Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.
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A flower that grow in the ghetto know more about survival than the one from fresh meadows.
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There just needs to be a gay rapper who's better than everybody. That's when that question will no longer be able to be asked.
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Love is blind, you just see bright light
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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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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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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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Everybody could write, deejay, rap. Everybody could do it all.
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I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out of the bank until I saw how Citi Bank responded to Occupy Wall Street.
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Hip-hop is a vehicle.
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But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.
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I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET. I'm not, at this point, gunning for like, Oh, I'm gonna kill them in the first week. But as people slowly discover the album they realize it's better than a lot of what they've been listening to all year.
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I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
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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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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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