If you were elected president, would you publicly support special prosecutors in these cases and what is one other thing you would do to fix our broken justice system?
RUSSELL SIMMONSHip-hop is about tearing down the system to better it, tearing down the system to better themselves. No matter how flimsy it might seem, they always wanted the finer things in life.
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The soundtrack in the poetry is the soundtrack from your own heartbeat.
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I don’t like to say, Oh, this is my favorite record because there was a moment that that record made me feel a certain way. The one on the radio at the present moment could be the one that’s most inspiring, because it’s at that second that you’re aware of “the infinite everything.”
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It’s always marketeers building their own careers.
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I think that’s what made rap such a stable footprint in culture, that it’s so honest.
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Antisemitism is just another form of racism. It’s the same sickness, whether it’s about Christians, about Islamophobia, which is horrible. It’s all wrong. It’s all the same.
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Labels cloud our vision and distract us from seeing how much we have in common with one another.
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And that’s how mantras are used in Buddhist and Hindu practices, as tools that clear your mind of distractions. Because when you focus on repeating that mantra over and over again, soon the noise will die down and all you will hear is your inner voice.
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I signed Jay-Z because he was on fire. I wasn’t a genius. The record was great. I put it on The Nutty Professor soundtrack and we signed him.
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I live in hip-hop. I don’t find it to be offensive.
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Needing nothing really is the ultimate goal. And to have nothing to do with things.
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If you don’t break a hole through the brick wall, don’t just start digging a new hole. Keep going until you break through that wall.
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Good givers are great getters.
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I feel the choices our president Barack Obama is making now are safer and better.
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You’ve got to do things that promote what’s important.
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The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.
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