I don’t get jealousy, I don’t get how people hate each other – I never did.
NASI think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They’re here to criticize all of us. That’s just how it is. We as MC’s criticize each other. That’s the nature of hip-hop.
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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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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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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of it.
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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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The sound of the ’90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street – it’s a feeling.
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Marley is someone before his time, man. He’s – he’s almost – he’s like a deity, like almost, you know what I mean?
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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence.
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My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
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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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There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that’s what it’s all about in the end – everybody being happy and working it out.
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I’m not talking about Russia in my music. I’ve never been to Russia. I’m not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China.
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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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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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