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I don’t think any rapper can go back. You can be a car salesman, a bank teller – I mean, really good jobs, and people are still gonna look at you and be like, ‘You used to rap; what happened?’

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My mom always taught me – you know, little boys listen to their moms too much – that whatever you put into something is what you’re going to get out of it.
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When Basquiat was hanging out with Madonna and Fab Five Freddy, and all those worlds were colliding, people have to realize hip-hop and the arts were like this ’cause we both were outcasts.
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I’ve always wanted to stay true to myself, and I’ve managed to do that. People have to accept that.
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Your job is to inspire people from your neighborhood to get out.
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Poor people don’t like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank they don’t like to think of themselves as poor.
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We wasn’t allowed inside the galleries or inside Yankee Stadium. We were writing in the street and making music.
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Around 20. I’d been trying to transition from the streets to the music business, but I would make demos and then quit for six months. And I started to realize that I couldn’t be successful until I let the street life go.
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I listen to everything – from Sarah McLachlan and Alanis Morissette all the way down to rap like Scarface, UGK and Lauryn Hill.
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Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that’s the foundation for everything great.
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I love what I do, and when you love what you do, you want to be the best at it.
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You don’t have that fear. So why do you think people get stuck in those boxes? It’s that fear of going back down.
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I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company.
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I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house.
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Religion is like a personal computer. You let people in if you want to… We’re all gods.
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I feel like with the history of this platform, from vinyl to where we are now, it just seems like the next logical step.
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The average rap life is two or three albums. You’re lucky to get to your second album in rap!
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I don’t think any rapper can go back. You can be a car salesman, a bank teller – I mean, really good jobs, and people are still gonna look at you and be like, ‘You used to rap; what happened?’

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