The beautiful thing about hip-hop is its like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and itll be a hip-hop song. Thats the only music you can do that with. – Talib Kweli
You know, Ive learned a lot from every person Ive collaborated with, from Madlib to Jean Grae and Hi-Tek, to Mos to DJ Quik, to even somebody like Jermaine Dupri. Ive taken something important away from every experience. – Talib Kweli
Aint nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals. – Talib Kweli
I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. Im looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate. – Talib Kweli
There are a lot of people using technology that are playing to a click with backing vocals already stuck in there on some computerized thing that runs along in time to the show so they have these amazing vocals that are only partly the guys on stage producing them at the time. – James Young