Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun.
NASSomebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate… I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.
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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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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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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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I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style – and that’s what I do.
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It’s never been seen that a street artist go as far as I’ve gone – keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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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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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 had a pretty public divorce. They’re not easy – divorces – and it took me a long time to really get through.
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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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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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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’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.
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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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I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me.
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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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