There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn’t know how many people would respect it.
NASN.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new – that’s what New York is about… New.
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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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The things that I have said when I was young and curious about whatever the subject matter was, I respect those – those are growing pains.
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Anybody I’m dating, I don’t want them to talk about my music. I don’t talk about my music to them.
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I think I’m that guy. I’m still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, ‘Life is good,’ to the world.
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I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop… We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We’re warriors. Soldiers.
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I’m smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I’m smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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We’re all Africans, everyone – black, white, yellow.
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There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that’s what it’s all about in the end – everybody being happy and working it out.
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I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I’d say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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I just talk about what’s going on, but of course, you know, Bob, before rappers, was already laying that kind of thing down.
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All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn’t have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
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I don’t know who I will collaborate with, but there’s a great chance of something happening.
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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun.
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When you have a daughter, you want to protect her from the things that I’ve seen out there, you know, the things that’s out there that ain’t good for her. It’s a crazy world we live in.
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