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When you have a voice and a platform and you know better, it becomes your moral obligation to support that community. And by extension, you're supporting your family.

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Talib Kweli
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 3
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Brooklyn
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Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
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There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.
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I have such respect for the art of deejaying. I hesitate to even call myself a deejay.
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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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Now people won't beat you up if you are gay they might just talk behind your back.
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I support the idea that artists have to make a stand. I'm with that - you're putting the discussion on the table and you're letting people know. You're being brave as an artist and responsible to the community.
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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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But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.
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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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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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I tour whether I have album out or not. I tour more than any other hip-hop artist.
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Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
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I try to count the blessings rather than the problems.
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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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When I met you it was magic... We polar opposites, but attracted like we was magnets.
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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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So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output.
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With Prisoner of Conscience, the focus was - I've worked with Madlib, High Tech, Kanye West, J Dilla. I feel like I've worked with some of the greatest of all time. That's been overlooked. That's been overshadowed by the weight of the lyrics.
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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 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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