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Back in the day they stole our smile, so we clothe our teeth in gold.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
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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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 -
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.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
The new moon rode high in the crown of the metropolis. Shinin', like "Who on top of this?
Yasiin Bey Black Star -
Why did one straw break the camel's back? Here's the secret: The million other straws underneath it.
Yasiin Bey Black Star -
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.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
Those who would trade in their freedom For their protection deserve neither
Talib Kweli Black Star
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Reckless capitalism kills black people.
Yasiin Bey Black Star -
Make today's solid ground out of yesterday's quicksand.
Yasiin Bey Black Star -
It wouldn't be fair to cast aspersions on an entire cultural movement based on the actions of a few. To quote my grandfather, 'One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch.'
Yasiin Bey Black Star -
They hope for the Apocalypse like a self-fulfilling prophecy Tell me when do we stop it? Do they ask you your religion before you rent an apartment? Is the answer burning Korans so that we can defend Islamics?
Talib Kweli Black Star -
You've got to validate every day. There are those who just put a stamp on it and say, "This is gonna be a good day and I'm not gonna let anything else make it a bad day."
Yasiin Bey Black Star -
Just because no one can understand how you speak, Don't necessarily mean that what you be sayin is deep.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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Harry Belafonte hit me to the Dream Defenders and I liked what they were about. When I asked them how I could help their movement, they said, "You can help by coming down here; you can tweet."
Talib Kweli Black Star -
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?
Talib Kweli Black Star -
I know what it feels like to have the door slammed firmly in my face, so I'm cool with that.
Yasiin Bey Black Star -
Consider me the entity within the industry without a history of spitting the epitome of stupidity.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
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 -
At its heart, music is all higher mathematics.
Yasiin Bey Black Star
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What else is stop and frisk? These neighborhoods are unsafe not because there's not enough cops illegally frisking people. They're not safe because of economic conditions. They're not safe because of all types of things in the government that people like Mike Bloomberg and Ray Kelly should be looking to fix instead of randomly searching kids in the hood. If you go to a college campus and you do stop and frisk, you're going to find a lot of drugs there, too.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
I'm doing exactly what I was supposed to do. Yeah. I didn't exactly choose this. My own life, if it were up to me, would be very, very quiet. I'd be like a shopkeeper, a book collector, or something like that. I'm not like this. Myself as a performer and an artist is totally different from who I am.
Yasiin Bey Black Star -
Coltrane had a sax, Dale Earnhardt drives a race car and everybody has their tools.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
Breathe in...inhale vapors from bright stars that shine, Breathe out...weed smoke retrace the skyline.
Yasiin Bey Black Star