Talib Kweli Quotes About Hip Hop

Quotes about: Hip Hop

• The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.

  Talib Kweli

  Beautiful, Song, Hip Hop

• Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.

  Talib Kweli

  Hip Hop, Hips, Hops

• Life without knowledge is death in disguise.

  Talib Kweli

  Rap, Hip Hop, Disguise

  Song: K.o.s

• I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.

  Talib Kweli

  Inspirational, Dance, Thinking

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

• A flower that grow in the ghetto know more about survival than the one from fresh meadows.

  Talib Kweli

  Rap, Flower, Ghetto

  Song: Love Language, Album: Reflection Eternal

• Just because no one can understand how you speak,
  Don't necessarily mean that what you be sayin is deep.

  Talib Kweli

  Rap, Mean, Hip Hop

  Song: Good Mourning

• You gotta get back to your essence,
  Use your gifts and share your presence,
  Don't count your dollars 'til you count your blessings.

  Talib Kweli

  Rap, Blessing, Essence

  Song: Self Savior, Album: Gutter Rainbows, 2010

• Hip-hop is a vehicle.

  Talib Kweli

  Hip Hop, Hips, Hops

• Do the math: You never settle for less than the whole if you knew the half.

  Talib Kweli

  Rap, Math, Hip Hop

• So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the direction of rappers just being honest with themselves, whether you're talking about Common and Mos Def or Nas and 50 cent.

  Talib Kweli

  Moving, Thinking, Rapper

• Consider me the entity within the industry without a history of spitting the epitome of stupidity.

  Talib Kweli

  Rap, Hip Hop, Stupidity

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

  Talib Kweli

  Rap, Giving, Hip Hop

• They hope for the Apocalypse like a self-fulfilling prophecy
  Tell me when do we stop it?
  Do they ask you your religion before you rent an apartment?
  Is the answer burning Korans so that we can defend Islamics?

  Talib Kweli

  Rap, Self, Hip Hop

  Song: Cold Rain, Album: Gutter Rainbows

• 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

• 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?

  Talib Kweli

  Rap, Artist, Hip Hop

• 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.

  Talib Kweli

  Rap, Men, Hip Hop

  FaceBook post by Talib Kweli from Mar 03, 2014

• We speak the love language, they speak from pain and anguish.
  Some don't love theyselves, so they perception is tainted.

  Talib Kweli

  Pain, Rap, Hip Hop

  Song: Love Language, Album: Reflection Eternal

• God gave us music, so we play with our words.

  Talib Kweli

  Rap, Play, Hip Hop

  Song: The Manifesto

• When I met you it was magic...
  We polar opposites, but attracted like we was magnets.

  Talib Kweli

  Rap, Opposites, Hip Hop

• Who you? Your name smaller than fine grains in couscous
  It's the highest calibre, your calibre is deuce deuce

  Talib Kweli

  Names, Hip Hop, Deuces

• We commute to computers
  Spirits stay mute while you eagles spread rumors
  We survivalists, turned to consumers.

  Talib Kweli

  Eagles, Hip Hop, Rumor

  Song: Get By

• 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

• Hip hop is at its essence a folk music, because it speaks the language that people are still speaking at ground zero, it speaks the language that people speak on the streets.

  Talib Kweli

  Zero, Essence, People

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

• It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big pop hits, actually some of the biggest pop hits that hip-hop has ever seen, people are missing that part of their story. People are not counting that blessing.

  Talib Kweli

  Couple, Blessing, People

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

• 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

  Country, Inspiration, Hip Hop

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

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