Once you get past appearances, you can tell whose shit is fake and whose shit is based on past experience.

Quote by Talib Kweli

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I don't feel comfortable making empty music.

I don't feel comfortable making empty music.

Runnin' through your town, huntin' you down, frontin' you down, this fuckin' clown tried to...

Runnin' through your town, huntin' you down, frontin' you down, this fuckin' clown tried to...

Once you're signed to a label you compromise.

Once you're signed to a label you compromise.

We remain, hotter than the blue part of the flame. I got a glock in...

We remain, hotter than the blue part of the flame. I got a glock in...

Yo, I speak at schools a lot cause they say I'm intelligent. No, it's cause...

Yo, I speak at schools a lot cause they say I'm intelligent. No, it's cause...

We have pathological romances with technological advances, infatuated with infatuation and intellectual masturbation.

We have pathological romances with technological advances, infatuated with infatuation and intellectual masturbation.

Niggas with knowledge is more dangerous than niggas with guns. They make the guns easy...

Niggas with knowledge is more dangerous than niggas with guns. They make the guns easy...

Y'all niggas can't hang like a loose noose.

Y'all niggas can't hang like a loose noose.

But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.

But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.

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

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

Those who trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither.

Those who trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither.

I think music sharing of any kind is great.

I think music sharing of any kind is great.

So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the...

So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the...

These cats drink champagne and toast to death and pain, like slaves on a ship...

These cats drink champagne and toast to death and pain, like slaves on a ship...

And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go...

And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go...

A lot of cats who buy records are straight broke, but my language universal they...

A lot of cats who buy records are straight broke, but my language universal they...

Hip-hop is a vehicle.

Hip-hop is a vehicle.

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

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

Bear witness I'm like shot clocks, interstate cops, and blood clots, my point is your...

Bear witness I'm like shot clocks, interstate cops, and blood clots, my point is your...

You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble....

You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble....