Your look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
NASMy 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’m talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
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Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.
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Even if you make mistakes, I go back to those things, my not-so-great moments because those are my truest moments; those are my human moments. I’m not even mad at the things I said that were a little dicey.
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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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The sound of the ’90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street – it’s a feeling.
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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing… At the end of the day, it’s up to us to control and to own hip-hop.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of it.
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I’m not talking about Russia in my music. I’ve never been to Russia. I’m not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China.
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I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.
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The flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
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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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Hip-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’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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