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Now people won't beat you up if you are gay they might just talk behind your back.
Talib Kweli
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Talib Kweli
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 3
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Everybody could write, deejay, rap. Everybody could do it all.
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What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?
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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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Hip-hop is a vehicle.
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Truthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense
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I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.
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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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Why give you the cure when the disease makes money?
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But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.
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Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.
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Let me finish my music, and let me present it the way I want to present it. And then share it, put it online, do whatever you want to do after that.
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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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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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And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.
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I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.
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God gave us music, so we play with our words.
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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 at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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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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