Hip hop Quotes by Talib Kweli

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

— Talib Kweli

Hip-hop is a vehicle.

— Talib Kweli

Why give you the cure when the disease makes money?

— Talib Kweli

That's what hip-hop is: It's sociology and English put to a beat, you know.

— Talib Kweli

I tour whether I have album out or not. I tour more than any other hip-hop artist.

— Talib Kweli

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

— Talib Kweli

Life without knowledge is death in disguise.

— Talib Kweli

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

— Talib Kweli

When you a man, action is whats expected, nothing is spoken on.

— Talib Kweli

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

— Talib Kweli

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

— Talib Kweli

But there's so many things in life like women, like children, like God and family that transcends the world of hip-hop.

— Talib Kweli

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

— Talib Kweli

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

— Talib Kweli

A true artist does not depend on radio for success. A true fan does not let radio determine what they support

— Talib Kweli

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

— Talib Kweli

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

— Talib Kweli

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

— Talib Kweli

The materialism, the brashness, the misogyny - everything in hip-hop is amplified. Misogyny is a good example of something that is completely…

— Talib Kweli

Nowadays rap artists coming half-hearted, Commercial like pop, or underground like black markets. Where were you the day hip-hop died? Is it…

— Talib Kweli

There just needs to be a gay rapper. He doesn't have to be flamboyant, just a rapper who identifies as gay -…

— Talib Kweli

What's more condescending and corny than someone telling you how much more money they have than you and telling you basically, 'I…

— Talib Kweli

I feel like your city - with hip hop in particular, because we're always beating our chest and shouting where we're from…

— Talib Kweli

The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in…

— Talib Kweli

Hip hop is at its essence a folk music, because it speaks the language that people are still speaking at ground zero,…

— Talib Kweli

You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just…

— Talib Kweli

I see that happening with hip hop purists now. Where you have an artist like a Kendrick [Lamar] or a Drake, who…

— Talib Kweli

If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good…

— Talib Kweli

If you ain't using all the talents God provided you with For the betterment of Man, understand, You ain't nothing but a…

— Talib Kweli

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

— Talib Kweli

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

— Talib Kweli

Hopefully, we learn to appreciate hip-hop here so that it doesn't go the way of jazz.

— Talib Kweli

They hope for the Apocalypse like a self-fulfilling prophecy Tell me when do we stop it? Do they ask you your religion…

— Talib Kweli

By the time you get into other kinds of music - R&B, country, or whatever - it becomes something that's romantic. It…

— Talib Kweli

It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big…

— Talib Kweli

I don't think that early hip hop stood out to be a social critique. A lot of fans of mine think that…

— Talib Kweli

Homosexuality in hip-hop is an extension of homosexuality in the black community. The black community is very, very conservative when it comes…

— Talib Kweli

These niggaz ain't thugs, the real thugs is the government. Don't matter if you Independent, Democrat or Republican, Niggaz politickin' the street,…

— Talib Kweli

Hip hop has always been, for us, for artists who are pure to the craft - any place overseas, whether it's Australia,…

— Talib Kweli

I think hip-hop is no more misogynistic than America is as a society. I just think hip-hop is a lot more brash,…

— Talib Kweli