What are the three most important issues facing America today?
Talib Kweli: I think the marriage of media, like news, and big business. I think racism. And I think greed, obesity, things like that. A lot of kids look up to you, right? Do you think artists have a responsibility or that you are an artist by default and parents should parent their own kids? I think that it’s the parent’s responsibility to raise kids. I think the artists have responsibility only because artists are seen and heard so much more than the average citizen is why the perception is that artists should have more responsibility than the average person. But responsibility, the artist should not be held more accountable for having responsibility than anyone else. Its just they are because they affect so many more people. Unfortunately many artists in popular music weather its hip hop or not, they tend to be young people. People under the age of thirty. People who have not grown with the concept of being responsible or being a role model. So they don’t have that information. You
