234 Quotes by Talib Kweli

People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it’s a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star.

People didn’t really take white rappers seriously until Eminem, because he was better than everybody. Like female emcees, you need to be like Lauryn Hill or Nicki Minaj or killing everything before somebody takes you seriously.

Or is it the mind state that’s ill, creating crime rates to fill the new prisons the build.

Well if somebody’s giving me a script, I’ll consider it. But it’s not something I’m chasing.

Honestly, you have to take care of yourself. That’s probably something I have learned on the road.

Once you’re signed to a label you compromise.

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.

Truthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense.

A lot of these people, these program directors, just like anybody else in the world, even though they’re supposed to be leaders in the world, they’re followers. They follow what they think someone else is doing, instead of trying to blaze a trail.