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I seen her on the ave, spotted her more than once. Ass so fat that you could see it from the front.
Yasiin Bey Black Star -
Hi-Tek is on three or four songs on the new record.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
But even creeps deserve to live someplace halfway decent.
Yasiin Bey Black Star -
The most important time in history is - NOW - the present, So count your blessings cause time can't define the essence.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
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.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
Everybody could write, deejay, rap. Everybody could do it all.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
Niggas with knowledge are more dangerous than niggas with guns. They make the guns easy to get and try to keep niggas dumb
Talib Kweli Black Star
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I'd bet a million dollars on DOOM against Lil' Wayne
Yasiin Bey Black Star -
Fuck the harder way, I'm doing it the smarter way
Talib Kweli Black Star -
Beef is not what Jay said to Nas; Beef is when the working folks can't find jobs.
Yasiin Bey Black Star -
Learn how to heal yourself and stop fucking with them hospitals
Talib Kweli Black Star -
And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.
Yasiin Bey Black Star -
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.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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I dreamt that I could paint you with words, but there were no colors bright enough, black or white enough, blue or green enough...they didn't mean enough
Yasiin Bey Black Star -
I feel like your city - with hip hop in particular, because we're always beating our chest and shouting where we're from - your city is just as influential as your parents. Even the grimy, hardcore gangster rap from New York - KRS-One and Wu Tang, the stuff acknowledges it.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good at it.
Yasiin Bey Black Star -
Do the math: You never settle for less than the whole if you knew the half.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical.
Yasiin Bey Black Star -
It's possible and available to any artist to be himself or herself on their own terms, to be accepted and embraced by black people. You don't have to be a thug to get love from black people.
Yasiin Bey Black Star
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I'm blacked than midnight on Broadway and Myrtle
Yasiin Bey Black Star -
Hip-hop is a beautiful culture. It's inspirational, because it's a culture of survivors. You can create beauty out of nothingness.
Yasiin Bey Black Star -
Spit bars you can't touch, like tits in strip bars, get scarred, I drop hits to hit hard
Talib Kweli Black Star -
Back in the day they stole our smile, so we clothe our teeth in gold.
Talib Kweli Black Star