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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

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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.

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I Think People Are Into Me Because Of My Music Choices And My Musicality.

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Skip The Religion And Politics, Head Straight To The Compassion. Everything Else Is A Distraction.

Religion And Politics

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The Most Important Time In History Is - Now - The Present, So Count Your Blessings Cause Time Can't Define The Essence.

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The Problem With Our Role Is Americans Live In A World Of Illusion.

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Life Is A Beautiful Struggle.

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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.

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My Rhymes Are Like Shot Clocks, Interstate Cops And Blood Clots, My Point Is Your Flow Gets Stopped.

Michael Bloomberg Is A Sensible Guy. He's Just Privileged. He's A Goddamn Billionaire, And He Or His Family Members Have Never Had To Deal With Anything As Remotely Degrading As Stop And Frisk. So He Has No Point Of Reference.

And You Know, Art As Commerce, Doesn't Really Make Too Much Sense, They Don't Go Together.

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.

With Prisoner Of Conscience, The Focus Was - I've Worked With Madlib, High Tech, Kanye West, J Dilla. I Feel Like I've Worked With Some Of The Greatest Of All Time. That's Been Overlooked. That's Been Overshadowed By The Weight Of The Lyrics.

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I Think Its Man's Nature To Go To War And Fight.

Truthfully I Wanna Rhyme Like Common Sensenext Best Thing I Do A Record With Common Sense

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.

Coltrane Had A Sax, Dale Earnhardt Drives A Race Car And Everybody Has Their Tools.

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.

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.

War Is Not Civilized.

Artists Look At The Environment, And The Best Artists Correctly Diagnose The Problem. I'm Not Saying Artists Can't Be Leaders, But That's Not The Job Of Art, To Lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - There Are Artists All Through History Who Have Become Leaders, But That Was Already In Them, Nothing To Do With Their Art.

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.

Or Is It The Mind State That's Ill, Creating Crime Rates To Fill The New Prisons The Build

I Don't Feel Comfortable Making Empty Music.

I Met Mos Def Around That Time But I Didn't Hook Up With Him Until I Was About 17 Or 18.

The Materialism, The Brashness, The Misogyny - Everything In Hip-hop Is Amplified. Misogyny Is A Good Example Of Something That Is Completely Amplified In Hip-hop. I Do Think There Is More Than Enough Of A Balance, Though, For Fans Who Are Willing To Search It Out.

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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