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Crunk Feminist Collective, I ...

Crunk Feminist Collective, I think, is a noble endeavor, and any group of young women coming together to uplift women, especially being run by women of color, I have no choice but to support that. But they're dead wrong on me.

Talib Kweli 166 quotes

My rhymes are like shot clock...

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

Talib Kweli 166 quotes

The founder of Crunk Feminist...

The founder of Crunk Feminists is a Christian. If you claim to be a Christian, but then you attack somebody for saying you should approach a problem with love, you're not being a true Christian.

Talib Kweli 166 quotes

I'm spinning records and I lo...

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.

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I have a luxury of people com...

I have a luxury of people coming to see me whether I play for the crowd or not. I don't take that lightly.

Talib Kweli 166 quotes

I like the fact that I can re...

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.

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When I was a teenager, the wa...

When I was a teenager, the way some of these kids out here be actively gay, it would have been ridiculed in the hood. And now the hood is a bit more accepting. Begrudgingly accepting, but definitely more accepting than 20 years ago when I was a little kid. That doesn't mean that anybody should stop fighting for equality just because people are begrudgingly a little more accepting.

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Nowadays rap artists coming h...

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?

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You know, I've learned a lot f...

You know, I've learned a lot from every person I've collaborated with, from Madlib to Jean Grae and Hi-Tek, to Mos to DJ Quik, to even somebody like Jermaine Dupri. I've taken something important away from every experience.

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I think once you're in the pub...

I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.

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You make knowledge relevant to...

You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.

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Skip the religion and politics...

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

Talib Kweli 166 quotes

I listened to a mind joint, an...

I listened to a mind joint, and I wanted to do my own version of it, and what you hear on my mixtape is my take on what the whole CD sounds like.

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Fortunately, artists can live ...

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.

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Coltrane had a sax, Dale Earnh...

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

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But there's so many things in ...

But there's so many things in life like women, like children, like God and family that transcends the world of hip-hop.

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Jazz is the greatest American ...

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.

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Hopefully, we learn to appreci...

Hopefully, we learn to appreciate hip-hop here so that it doesn't go the way of jazz.

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But Rawkus is integral to what...

But Rawkus is integral to what I do, because the cats who started Rawkus are the first ones who really saw my vision, and gave me a platform to get it out there, so I'm definitely totally grateful for that.

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I see that happening with hip ...

I see that happening with hip hop purists now. Where you have an artist like a Kendrick [Lamar] or a Drake, who are really trying different things emotionally, different things musically, and on a mainstream level. And you have underground hip hop fans dissing it, for the simple fact that it's mainstream - not because what they're doing is whack, or what they're doing is not sincere.

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