With age comes common sense and wisdom.
NASI 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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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.
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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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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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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’m smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I’m smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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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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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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I don’t want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I’m not perfect, and I’m just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?
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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’m a big fan of Common. I’m a big fan of Scarface; I’m a big fan of so many people, from Jeezy to… well, there are a lot of people’s music that I respect.
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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new – that’s what New York is about… New.
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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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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 like the way hip-hop is now. It’s grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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