Talib Kweli Quotes
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The only way for me to be an artist is to be honest in my craft. If I veer from that, I'm not giving the investors what they want. Sometimes it's my job as an artist to know what I want to do, even when the fans tell me different.
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I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.
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I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. I'm looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate.
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Everybody could write, deejay, rap. Everybody could do it all.
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Learn how to heal yourself and stop fucking with them hospitals
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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'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET.
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Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals.
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Hip hop has always been, for us, for artists who are pure to the craft - any place overseas, whether it's Australia, any place in Asia, Germany, Africa, it becomes something where you can still go and work. Hip hop is an import culture. We're spoiled by it here. It's homegrown.
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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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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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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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Niggas with knowledge are more dangerous than niggas with guns. They make the guns easy to get and try to keep niggas dumb
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Fuck the harder way, I'm doing it the smarter way
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I look at the deejay thing as a tier thing. If I'm not going to compete on that level, I'm just going to do it as a hobby.
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Back in the day they stole our smile, so we clothe our teeth in gold.
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Those who would trade in their freedom For their protection deserve neither
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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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I have a luxury of people coming to see me whether I play for the crowd or not. I don't take that lightly.
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They ask me what I'm writing for - I'm writing to show you what we're fighting for.
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Do the math: You never settle for less than the whole if you knew the half.
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Just because no one can understand how you speak, Don't necessarily mean that what you be sayin is deep.
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Nowadays rap artists coming half-hearted, Commercial like pop, or underground like black markets. Where were you the day hip-hop died? Is it too early to mourn? Is it too late to ride?
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I'd like to work with Outkast, I'd like to work with RZA, I'd like to work with Timbaland, York, a whole bunch of people.