No one’s promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
NASHip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days… that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you.
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I think I’ve had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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I don’t want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I’m not perfect, and I’m just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?
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I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is.
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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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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence.
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I’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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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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You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm.
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Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it’s not up to people’s expectations anymore, its still here, and that’s says a lot.
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My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.
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I’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.
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Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you’re happy… Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.
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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.
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Your look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
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