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.
NASNo matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
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I have no tattoos that I regret – I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.
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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 bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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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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Let’s not forget, art can sell. You ain’t gotta front all the time on your records.
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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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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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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’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 flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
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DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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I 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 enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means – I love art.
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