Talib Kweli Quotes

Hopefully, We Learn To Appreciate Hip-hop Here So That It Doesn't Go The Way Of Jazz.

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.

Woman Are Complex Creatures.

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.

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 See Somebody Rapping And You're Like, "nah, My Cousin Can Do That." You're Spoiled By The Experience. Overseas, It's Still Something That People Can Appreciate.

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.

I Feel Like Your City - With Hip Hop In Particular, Because We're Always Beating Our Chest And Shouting Where We're From - Your City Is Just As Influential As Your Parents. Even The Grimy, Hardcore Gangster Rap From New York - Krs-one And Wu Tang, The Stuff Acknowledges It.

Even An Independent Label Is Looking For A Hit, They're Not Looking For A Record That's Not Gonna Do Well.

I Support The Idea That Artists Have To Make A Stand. I'm With That - You're Putting The Discussion On The Table And You're Letting People Know. You're Being Brave As An Artist And Responsible To The Community.

If You Go To A College Campus And You Do Stop And Frisk, You're Going To Find A Lot Of Drugs There Too.

I Was Kind Of Just Too Lazy To Take My Money Out Of The Bank Until I Saw How Citi Bank Responded To Occupy Wall Street.