Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence.
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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You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it’s like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it.
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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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Let’s not forget, art can sell. You ain’t gotta front all the time on your records.
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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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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 don’t get jealousy, I don’t get how people hate each other – I never did.
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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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I don’t know who I will collaborate with, but there’s a great chance of something happening.
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When I say ‘hip-hop is dead,’ basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.
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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 record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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No one’s promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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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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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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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 just talk about what’s going on, but of course, you know, Bob, before rappers, was already laying that kind of thing down.
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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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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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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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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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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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I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
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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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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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