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I always was like, “Yo, I’m here, I might as well get what I could take.”

Ice Cube

Sometimes you got to start somewhere. And it’s cool, as long as where you start is not where you plan on finishing.
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Planning Start Time Yourself
Any time there’s racism somewhere in sports, we should get it out of there because sports is a place where everything’s supposed to be fair.
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Fair Place Race Sports Time
I never was in the Nation of Islam… I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, ’cause it’s just me and God.
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Call God Myself Nation Religion
Sometimes, when you want to laugh, reality steps in.
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Laughter Reality Time Yourself
I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that’s how I started my career.
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Career Enlightenment Love Myself Start Time
The thing is with hip-hop, it has its waves and the waves crash against the beach and the new waves come in. So to stay relevant you have to roll with that.
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Flow Life Roll Stay Yourself
I grew up in the seventies and disco was big. That influenced me the most.
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Growth Influence Music Myself
I believe every pencil has to be sharpened every now and then to stay sharp, or you dull out. So my records, I chose to speak on what black people do, what white people do, what women do, what men do.
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Believe Black Myself Pencil People Sharp Talk White
I’m not actually from Compton – I’m from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I grew up in, so I’m there all the time.
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Father Myself Time
Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That’s all it is.
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Burden Freedom Music Rap Song
Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren’t about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.
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Comedy Darkness Fantasy Funny Ourselves Protest Record
There’s things people say in the barbershop they won’t even say in their own living room, because it’s just one of those zones where nobody’s going to judge you too much about your dumb opinion.
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Judgement Live Oneself Opinion People
Keep doin’ what you’re doin’, fall in love with what you’re creating, and everything else will fall into place.
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Creation Fall In Love Place Yourself
Create your own path, hone your talent, be ready to show your talent, and don’t doubt yourself.
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Creation Doubt Path Talent Yourself
To me, in a perfect world, you have the flavor and the magic of movies like 48 Hours, Lethal Weapon and Bad Boys.
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Magic Man Myself Perfection
Should I peel a cap or should I let him survive?
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Allow Choice Myself Survive

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