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He's all business. In his earlier work he was more of a lyricists. He pivoted and started selling more record, making commercial music. His timing was right and
by datums 16y ago
He's all business. In his earlier work he was more of a lyricists. He pivoted and started selling more record, making commercial music. His timing was right and he executed perfectly. In his own words.
"I dumb it down for my audience
and double my dollars
they criticize me for it
yet they still yell "Holla"
If skills sold
Truth be told
I'd probably be
Lyricly
Talib Kweli"
The glorification of drug dealing and gun carrying is a huge turn off album after album.
- nickelplate 16y ago"Truthfully I want to rhyme like Common Sense But I did five mil I ain't be rhyming like Common since When your senses got so much in common And you've been hustlin since your inception Fuck perception go with what makes sense" He is essentially saying that he started dumbing it down after doing "Vol. 2 Hard Knock Life" - which sold five million copies.