Talib Kweli Quotes About Rap

Quotes about: Rap

• Life without knowledge is death in disguise.

  Talib Kweli

  Rap, Hip Hop, Disguise

  Song: K.o.s

• 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

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

  Talib Kweli

  Rap, Math, Hip Hop

• I started rapping because I wanted people to hear what I have to say, I want as many people to hear me as possible, and I do everything in my power to make that pop.

  Talib Kweli

  Rap, People, Want

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  Talib Kweli

  New York, Rap, Cities

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

• My kids are the most inspiring thing that pushes me. It used to be because they were born, and I had to take care of them. Now it's because my son raps, and he's better than me. So now I gotta keep up with him, you know what I'm saying?

  Talib Kweli

  Rap, Kids, Son

  "Talib Kweli On Mainstream Hip-Hop And Honoring The Old School". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. April 24, 2013.

• Everybody could write, deejay, rap. Everybody could do it all.

  Talib Kweli

  Rap, Writing, Deejays

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

• 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.

  Talib Kweli

  Cousin, Rap, People

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

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