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My first album didn’t come out until I was 26.

Jay-Z

I don’t profess to be a political rapper, like groups such as ‘Dead Prez’ or ‘Public Enemy’, but I think social commentary should make its way into your music. Speaking on your neighbourhood is social commentary – what happens, what’s going on.
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Hip-hop has done more for race relations than most cultural icons; and I say save Martin Luther King, because his ‘I Have A Dream’ speech was realized when Obama was elected into office.
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I came into this music business at 26 years old. I was a fully developed man at that point. At that age, I didn’t have anything to prove.
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Music is everywhere – you consume it every day, everywhere you go. The content creator should be compensated. It’s only fair.
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One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That’s the American ideal.
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No one came to our neighborhoods with stand-up jobs and showed us there’s a different way. Maybe, had I seen different role models, maybe I’d’ve turned on to that.
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Poor people don’t like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank they don’t like to think of themselves as poor.
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I try to make music with emotion and integrity. And authenticity.
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I think relationships are broken up because of the media.
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My brands are an extension of me. They’re close to me. It’s not like running GM, where there’s no emotional attachment.
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That’s why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to any club.
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Companies that pretend to care about music and really care about other things – whether it be hardware, whether it be advertising – and now they look at music as a loss leader. And we know music isn’t a loss leader; music is an important part of our lives.
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I’ve never looked at myself and said that I need to be a certain way to be around a certain sort of people.
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I have no idea what my teacher’s intentions were – whether she was trying to inspire us or if she actually thought visiting her Manhattan brownstone with her view of Central Park qualified as a school trip.
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You don’t have that fear. So why do you think people get stuck in those boxes? It’s that fear of going back down.
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I feel like with the history of this platform, from vinyl to where we are now, it just seems like the next logical step.
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