If you work at rap and look at it as an art, the money will come. But if you try to get the money, it’ll just always be shallow.
DR. DREI’m expressin’ with my full capabilities, And now I’m livin in correctional facilities. Cause some don’t agree with how I do this, I get straight and meditate like a Buddhist.
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In fact, I would advise against anyone doing reality shows. I won’t be doing ‘X Factor’ just yet.
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I believe in reincarnation, and I believe I’ve lived quite a few lives.
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I don’t have room in my life for folks that large and demanding.
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I love the new technology. New things give you a reason to want to go to the studio. New challenges mean you have to keep up, you know?
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I’m gonna try and change the course of hip hop again.
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If there were no guns, we couldn’t talk about it, … You turn on TV, you see soldiers marching with guns. We only talk about things that’s happening.
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I’ve gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it’s almost like a high. You don’t want it to stop. You don’t want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.
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Everything in my life has been about sound and making music, so Beats represents just that – the improvement of sound and the dedication to everything I’ve been doing from the day I started.
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I can take a three-year-old and make a hit record with him.
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I don’t even listen to the records after they come out. It’s outlawed in my house. My wife and my kids can’t play any of my music around me. Once it comes out, for me, it’s just business. Numbers.
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Everything that I do is for sound goals. It comes from my gut. When I’m sitting in the studio, a mix isn’t done till I feel it in my gut.
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You got to realise that when I was 20 years old, I had a house, a Mercedes, a Corvette and a million dollars in the bank before I could buy alcohol legally.
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I’m never gonna stop music, it’s like air to me.
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They wanna hang us, see us dead, or enslave us, keep us trapped in the same place we raised in. Then they wonder why we act so outrageous, run around stressed out and pull out gauges.
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Don’t be worried about the next man – make sure your business tight.
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People are always coming up to me, thinking I’ve got some magic wand that can make them a star and I want to tell them that no one can do that. Making hit records is not that easy. But it took me time to realize that myself.
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Try to be the king, but the ace is back.
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It ain’t that I’m too big to listen to the rumors, It’s just that I’m too damn big to pay attention to ’em.
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The record business. It’s exactly what it is-Record-Busin ess. You have to take care of both, or they won’t take care of you.
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Even when I was close to defeat I rose to my feet
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I’m high off the indo creepin’ with the quickness to the cut, bust one to his head while he munches on that donut.
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I just took some ecstasy, ain’t no tellin’ what the side effects could be.
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Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth.
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Engineering and mixing are absolutely key. Once a song is done, for me personally, it’s usually two or three days to get the mix down.
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And even when I was close to defeat, I rose to my feet.
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I been in the game for 10 years making rap tunes… Ever since honeys was wearing Sassoons.
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