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Harry Belafonte hit me to the Dream Defenders and I liked what they were about. When I asked them how I could help their movement, they said, You can help by coming down here you can tweet.

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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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Life is a beautiful struggle.
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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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When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.
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I just got a new manager. He's like, So what do you want to do with the deejay thing? I'm like, The deejay thing for me is more my hobby. It's great when you can supplement your income, when you have a weekly or something, it's fun. It's really a hobby, because I don't want it to take away from what I do, which is emceeing.
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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'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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You can have your own opinion, but not your own facts.
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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 try to count the blessings rather than the problems.
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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'm not looking to set a standard... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work.
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When I met you it was magic... We polar opposites, but attracted like we was magnets.
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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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The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.
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Truthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense
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