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My mom always taught me – you know, little boys listen to their moms too much – that whatever you put into something is what you’re going to get out of it.

Jay-Z

I’m just going to make the music I love to make, and I’m going to mature with my music.
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Just Love Make Mature Music
I’ve always wanted to stay true to myself, and I’ve managed to do that. People have to accept that.
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Accept Always Manage Myself People Stay Want
I listen to everything – from Sarah McLachlan and Alanis Morissette all the way down to rap like Scarface, UGK and Lauryn Hill.
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Country Everything Listen People Person Way
Everyone’s supposed to stay in their lines and be neat. ‘You’re a rapper. You’re supposed to rap, carry a boom box, wear chains, and go to the club – that’s all you do. What are you doing collecting art?
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Bottom Box Chain Everyone Line Neat Rapper Stay Suppose Wear
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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Feel History Like Logical Next Now Platform Step Vinyl
Around 20. I’d been trying to transition from the streets to the music business, but I would make demos and then quit for six months. And I started to realize that I couldn’t be successful until I let the street life go.
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Around Been Business Demos Make Month Music Quit Six Street Transition Twenty
I try to make music with emotion and integrity. And authenticity.
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Authenticity Emotion Feel Integrity Make Music Something Try
I was a really good student. In the sixth grade, I was reading at a twelfth grade reading level. But I got bored.
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Bore Good Grade Raed Really Six Student Twentieth
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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Compensate Consume Content Creator Day Every Everywhere Fair Music Only
Music is the soundtrack to your life. It’s not going to go anywhere. But the way people are purchasing music has changed. It’s not the same anymore. It will never be the same.
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Anywhere Change Go Life Music People Purchase Soundtrack
Excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over again. You can hit a half-court shot once. That’s just the luck of the draw. If you consistently do it… that’s excellence.
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Again Being Count Excellence Half Hit Once Over Performance Shot
People are intermingling, hanging out, having fun, enjoying the same music. Hip-hop is not just in the Bronx anymore. It’s worldwide. Everywhere you go, people are listening to hip-hop and partying together. Hip-hop has done that.
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Enjoy Everywhere Fun Hip Hop Intermiging Listen Music Party People Together
I think that’s what happened to the record business when ‘Napster’ came around. The industry rejected what was happening instead of accepting it as change.
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Accept Business Change Happen Industry Instead Record Reject Think
As kids, we didn’t complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could.
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Aspire Complain Kid Lifestyle Made Mean Move Poor Rich
I don’t know where streaming will go in the future. The analytics that we’re seeing tell us that streaming is the next thing, and downloads are going down.
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Analytics Download Future Know Next Stream Time
The average rap life is two or three albums. You’re lucky to get to your second album in rap!
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Album Average Life Luck Rap Second Thre Two

My mom always taught me – you know, little boys listen to their moms too much – that whatever you put into something is what you’re going to get out of it.

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My mom always taught me – you know, little boys listen to their moms too much – that whatever you put into something is what you’re going to get out of it.

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