Talib Kweli Quotes - Page 3

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• Truthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense

  Talib Kweli

  Common Sense, Records, Rhyme

  Song: Ghetto Show, Album: Beautiful Struggle, 2004

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• Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.

  Talib Kweli

  Giving, Scripts, Chasing

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• The way I feel about Crunk Feminists. Here you have a bunch of bloggers who are not even quoting any feminists' works who are telling me what I can do better when I've been doing this as my life's work while y'all still in college! What are you talking about? And their criticism was of the idea that we should approach people like Rick Ross and Lil' Wayne with love when they have lyrics that we don't like, as opposed to approaching them with hate. That's their issue: How dare I say I approach Rick Ross with love!

  Talib Kweli

  Hate, College, People

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• Love is blind, you just see bright light

  Talib Kweli

  Love Is, Light, Blind

  Song: Love Language, Album: Reflection Eternal

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• Coltrane had a sax, Dale Earnhardt drives a race car and everybody has their tools.

  Talib Kweli

  Race, Car, Tools

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• I gotta be dope first. I gotta be appealing to your senses, and to what you like first. Then the message happens. Then you relate to the message.

  Talib Kweli

  Dope, Messages, Firsts

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.

  Talib Kweli

  Jobs, Dope, Rapper

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• Why give you the cure when the disease makes money?

  Talib Kweli

  Rap, Giving, Hip Hop

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• These niggaz ain't thugs, the real thugs is the government.
  Don't matter if you Independent, Democrat or Republican,
  Niggaz politickin' the street, get into beef,
  Start blastin'...now a new cat is executive chief.

  Talib Kweli

  Real, Rap, Cat

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• Hip-hop is a vehicle.

  Talib Kweli

  Hip Hop, Hips, Hops

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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.

  Talib Kweli

  Hobbies, Looks, Levels

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• My fans like to be romantic. I feel like I'm creating at least at the same level or even a higher level of creativity than I was at twenty-one. I've gotten better as an artist.

  Talib Kweli

  Creativity, Artist, Creating

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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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.

  Talib Kweli

  Fun, Hobbies, Income

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• I started rapping because I wanted people to hear what I have to say, I want as many people to hear me as possible, and I do everything in my power to make that pop.

  Talib Kweli

  Rap, People, Want

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• I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. Im looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate.

  Talib Kweli

  Education, Skills, Community

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• People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star.

  Talib Kweli

  Stars, Thinking, People

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• As far as being on a major label, some labels get it and get what they have to do, and some labels don't. I don't think the label I'm on necessarily gets it, but I think over time they're gonna have to.

  Talib Kweli

  Thinking, Labels, Majors

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• Jazz is the greatest American art form and our greatest export. We don't pay attention to the youth of jazz, don't stoke the fires creatively for the youth coming up. I feel like jazz musicians became too much of purists - with Donald Byrd doing funk jazz in the '70s.

  Talib Kweli

  Art, Fire, Musician

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Homosexuality in hip-hop is an extension of homosexuality in the black community. The black community is very, very conservative when it comes to homosexuality, and I don't mean conservative in the good way, like we're saving money. I mean very intolerant.

  Talib Kweli

  Mean, Hip Hop, Community

  "Talib Kweli Stands His Ground". Interview with AJ Vicens, www.motherjones.com. August 26, 2013.

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• Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.

  Talib Kweli

  Artist, Rapper, Compliment

  "Talib Kweli On ReGENERATION Activism Documentary And Being ABBAACCSS1‘Conscious’ Rapper". Interview with Seamus McKiernan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 1, 2012.

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• My rhymes are like shot clocks,
  interstate cops
  and blood clots,
  my point is your flow gets stopped.

  Talib Kweli

  Blood, Flow, Cop

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• There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.

  Talib Kweli

  Years, People, Lasts

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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

  Dream, Helping, Tweet

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• The way I see it, if people truly love my music, they will support me in some way down the road.

  Talib Kweli

  People, Support, Way

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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

  Jobs, Artist, Giving

  "Hip-hop artist Talib Kweli". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 17, 2013.

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