Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.
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I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that’s how I started my career.
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Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That’s all it is.
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Don’t get a movie confused with real life. I’m a well-rounded human being like everyone else.
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You like a woman, she’s got kids, it’s a package. You can’t just go in one-sided.
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When I was six, God was a white man with a big beard riding on a white cloud. That’s the image television pumps.
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You want the industry to finally admit that you’re good. But I’m still good without their admission.
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The real is always presented. That hardcore record or movie is not needed in the hood, because it’s already there. You can see it with your own eyes.
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Create your own path, hone your talent, be ready to show your talent, and don’t doubt yourself.
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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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I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I’m a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.
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I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.
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I’m always happy. I’ve just got a mean face.
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The hardest period for a writer is the period in-between writing. That’s when you can go crazy if you don’t allow the creative juices to flow.
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I always was like, “Yo, I’m here, I might as well get what I could take.”
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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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You pay to have a good time, you don’t always want to pay to be schooled or sad or reminded how bad you got it. To me a movie theater ain’t always the place for that.
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I do what I do. You like it, great. You don’t, go listen to somebody else. I’m stickin’ with the people who stuck with me.
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I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who’s trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in.
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Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.
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Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
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I love music. It’s freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.
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Most of the problems that we have are brought on by the government and not by music. Music is a mirror of what we’re going through, not the cause of what we’re going through.
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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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Creating is really what I like to do. The best thing in the world is to have an idea in the back of your head and then to make that idea into a movie and have people all over the world enjoy it.
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Should I peel a cap or should I let him survive?
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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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