Talib Kweli Quotes

I am a hip-hop artist, as you probably know. My hip-hop name is Big Smalls.

My favorite rappers are Lil Wayne. I like Wayne.

I'm my favorite rapper.

I'm not just a hip-hop artist; I feel like I'm a rock star.

Lupe Fiasco is kinda cool. I like him a lot.

From what I remember, I remember always being a big fan of Kardinal Offishall. He just had that different flow and different flavor. He put himself on the record and that's the type of energy that we love.

Fetty Wap is just a face. It's just a name and face.

I think Lil Wayne is definitely a dope rapper.

I would hope that Kanye [West] would be remembered for being smart and sticking to what he believes.

Ghost tells me every few years, Yo, you showed me this style ... I'm like, man, we the same style. At the end of the day, he's one of my favorite rappers, I'm one of his favorite rappers, and we just do it.

Weezy F. Baby/ And the 'F' ain't for fear

Lil Wayne is a person who I think is really deserving of the success he's had. I'm someone who can stay in the studio 24-7, and I've watched him stay in there just as long. He has a creativeness about him that I love.

I was a producer and rapper before Linkin Park. Once the band took off, it was the center of my focus. A couple of years ago, I started missing doing straight-up hip hop, and that's when Fort Minor began.

Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up very fast but not very far. That is why it is possible for 14 year olds now to establish friendships with 26 year olds - because they know by the age of 14 all they are ever going to know.

I never really told anybody that I'm a rapper. I wasn't walking around being like, "Yo, check out my mixtape!" It was more of a secret grind.

Through the years I've never stopped doing things, thinking about things, and I still think young.

When we say a rapper, a rapper can say a rhyme. But an MC can rock a party.

Jay-Z is a dude that can give you a hundred 'Simpsons' quotes, like, 'What you know about the monorail?'

My mom on Pitbull: 'I'm glad he's a star, b/c if he wasn't and I just saw him on the street I'd think he was going to steal from me.'

Drake just stands for Do Right And Kill Everything

I was trying to be the best rapper in the world. I wasn't thinking about acting.

What a lot of people don't know is that Wyclef started off as a battle rapper, when he decided that he would rhyme.

These broke rappers always rappin bout a pink truck. I'm only happy when I'm hoppin out the Brinks truck.

Last name 'Ever', first name 'Greatest'

I wouldn't even say that I'm a rapper. I'd say I'm more of a messenger.