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I feel like I have way more resources, way more experience. I'm better. But my fans romanticize the earlier stuff, and I don't think it's just like a nostalgia thing of "He's not as good" - I think it's because that earlier stuff was aggressively marketed as a lifestyle to them.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
I like the fact that I can rep New York, but my style does not - I'm not trapped in a New York thing. I can do art songs with other artists and it's seamless.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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We get high on all types of drugs when, all you really need is Love
Talib Kweli Black Star -
Fortunately, artists can live off their works, if you're creative at how you do it. If you just depend on the videos and the radio, you're at a loss.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
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.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
Love is blind, you just see bright light
Talib Kweli Black Star -
They ask me what I'm writing for - I'm writing to show you what we're fighting for.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
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.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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I was always rhyming and doing it for the love before I found out I was gonna have children and when I found out, doing it for the love wasn't enough.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
I thought everybody got into rock 'n' roll because they didn't want to follow instructions.
Yasiin Bey Black Star -
Hip-Hop went from selling crack to smoking it
Yasiin Bey Black Star -
Every time you ask yourself where hip-hop's going, ask yourself where you're going; how are you doing?
Yasiin Bey Black Star -
There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists.
Yasiin Bey Black Star -
All the things that are worth doing, take time.
Yasiin Bey Black Star
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People don't like the music that's out now, that's on their radio stations, and they want to hear something different, but they're just the audience. You know, people will keep the TV on even if a show is on that they hate - because, unfortunately, they've been programmed to do that. [But] they are really looking for something that's gonna speak to the world that they're living in. That's what people are looking for, but they're not finding it.
Yasiin Bey Black Star -
Everything's got space between it, the planets, trees, your eyes. Your eyes get too close together, it's a whole different world. You can lose perspective.
Yasiin Bey Black Star -
We blasted holes in the night until she bled sunshine
Yasiin Bey Black Star -
I guess something that you love to do, you gotta ease up off it and give it a little space, come back and be fresh to it.
Yasiin Bey Black Star -
What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends.
Yasiin Bey Black Star