Talib Kweli Quotes
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Talib Kweli Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I was always rhyming and doing it for the love before I found out I was gonna have children and when I found out, doing it for the love wasn't enough.
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.
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.
If you ain't using all the talents God provided you with
For the betterment of Man, understand,
You ain't nothing but a waste.
For the betterment of Man, understand,
You ain't nothing but a waste.
If you look at my career, doing albums with Norah Jones, Justin Timberlake, Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne or KRS-One and Jean Grae, I can't be pigeonholed.
Who you? Your name smaller than fine grains in couscous
It's the highest calibre, your calibre is deuce deuce
It's the highest calibre, your calibre is deuce deuce
It's very seductive to focus on what you don't like as opposed to celebrating all that it is that you do.
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.
I have a luxury of people coming to see me whether I play for the crowd or not. I don't take that lightly.
You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.
But there's so many things in life like women, like children, like God and family that transcends the world of hip-hop.
Please, this is no disrespect to whoever your man is though. This relationship is strictly musical like D'Angelo
Music is not an exact science so depending on the time and the mode and the energy when we do it that will determine what happens with it.
We speak the love language, they speak from pain and anguish.
Some don't love theyselves, so they perception is tainted.
Some don't love theyselves, so they perception is tainted.
Just because no one can understand how you speak,
Don't necessarily mean that what you be sayin is deep.
Don't necessarily mean that what you be sayin is deep.
I remember looking back on a photo of me ... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.
I look at the deejay thing as something - I'm good at it because I have my own music. I have enough rhythm to blend at this point.
There just needs to be a gay rapper who's better than everybody. That's when that question will no longer be able to be asked.
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.
I ignored your aura but it grabbed me by the hand, like the moon pulled the tide, and the tide pulled the sand.
Let me finish my music, and let me present it the way I want to present it. And then share it, put it online, do whatever you want to do after that.
You gotta get back to your essence,
Use your gifts and share your presence,
Don't count your dollars 'til you count your blessings.
Use your gifts and share your presence,
Don't count your dollars 'til you count your blessings.
A true artist does not depend on radio for success. A true fan does not let radio determine what they support
I'm not looking to set a standard ... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work.
Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.
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.
Before Eminem, the idea that there would be a white rapper that anybody would really check for was fantastic or amazing or impossible.
The most important time in history is - NOW - the present,
So count your blessings cause time can't define the essence.
So count your blessings cause time can't define the essence.
You gotta eat right, you gotta have healthy habits, you know, and balance out your decadence with a healthy lifestyle during the day.
I'd like to work with Outkast, I'd like to work with RZA, I'd like to work with Timbaland, York, a whole bunch of people.
If you go to a college campus and you do stop and frisk, you're going to find a lot of drugs there too.