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I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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Hi-Tek is on three or four songs on the new record.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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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.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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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.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.
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
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Man, I smashed her like an Idaho Potato
Yasiin Bey Black Star
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Yo, I heard it's said the revolution won't be televised But in the land of milk and honey there's a date you gotta sell it by Otherwise it just expires and spoils and these folks jump out the pot when the water too hot
Talib Kweli Black Star
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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.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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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.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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I get reminded a lot of the time that my life is a little bit different, but I'm just trying to keep it as regular as possible because I like it that way
Yasiin Bey Black Star
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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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Learn how to heal yourself and stop fucking with them hospitals
Talib Kweli Black Star
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I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition that they represent.
Yasiin Bey Black Star
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Everybody could write, deejay, rap. Everybody could do it all.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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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
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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
Talib Kweli Black Star
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Fuck the harder way, I'm doing it the smarter way
Talib Kweli Black Star
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I'm blacked than midnight on Broadway and Myrtle
Yasiin Bey Black Star
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Do the math: You never settle for less than the whole if you knew the half.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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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.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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I'm spinning records and I look across the restaurant and I see somebody who looks Asian. And I'm like, "Yo, that looks like Yoko Ono." I'm like, oh, I can just meet - that's going to be great. Then I look carefully and I'm like, "That's not Yoko Ono, that's Bruno Mars." And it was Bruno Mars. That just happened recently. I was bugging out. Because that was totally not Yoko Ono at all.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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I'd bet a million dollars on DOOM against Lil' Wayne
Yasiin Bey Black Star
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Why did one straw break the camel's back? Here's the secret: The million other straws underneath it.
Yasiin Bey Black Star
