Some people say I’m conscious, some say I’m a gangsta rapper – it’s just me doing me. I’m stomping in my own lane. I’m doing what I do.
NASWhen 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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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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I think I’ve had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records.
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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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I’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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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’ve been called everything. Gangsta rap. I’ve been called conscious rap. You know, everything. Whoever feels like calling it whatever they want to call it, that’s on them.
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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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We’re all Africans, everyone – black, white, yellow.
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Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.
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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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When you’re a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls – you want to get the most girls.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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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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Calling Michelle ‘Obama Barack’s baby mama?’ Tell me, is that acceptable? But the Obamas aren’t the only targets. Fox’s pattern of race-baiting and fear-mongering regularly focuses on black leaders, black institutions and ordinary black people.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she’s fearless and she’s ahead of the game. She’s ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.
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Hip-hop is really standoffish. It’s really competitive and it’s really about who’s number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.
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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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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
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I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that’s been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.
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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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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of it.
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You can’t please everybody. You’d be crazy if you’re trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
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Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it’s time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.
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