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Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in just as deep a way.

Jay-Z

The challenge is to get everyone to respect music again, to recognize its value.
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Again Challenge Everyone Respect Music Recognize Value
Music is the soundtrack to your life. It’s not going to go anywhere. But the way people are purchasing music has changed. It’s not the same anymore. It will never be the same.
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Anywhere Change Go Life Music People Purchase Soundtrack
I am against discrimination of any kind, but if I make snap judgments, no matter who it’s towards, aren’t I committing the same sin as someone who profiles?
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Against Community Discrimination Judgement Kind Make Matter Same Sin Snap Someone Toward
Religion is like a personal computer. You let people in if you want to… We’re all gods.
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All Computer God Let People Personal Religion
I try to make music with emotion and integrity. And authenticity.
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Authenticity Emotion Feel Integrity Make Music Something Try
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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What people have to understand is ‘Billboard’ is a magazine. They’re like elected officials – they work for us.
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Billboard Elected Magazine Official People Understand Work
As kids we didn’t complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could. And as soon as we had a little money, we were eager to show it.
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Aspire Being Complain Going Kid Lifestyle Made Move Poor Rich Talk
I’m a mirror. If you’re cool with me, I’m cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you don’t like what you see, then you’ve done something. If I’m standoffish, that’s because you are.
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I don’t sit around with my friends and talk about money, ever. On a record, that’s different.
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I’ve always believed in good music over bad music. I believe in two sorts of musics. And the lines that separate us, I don’t believe in that. That’s for people who need to easily define what they’re hearing. Me, I’m cool with everything and anything I’m hearing that’s music. It comes under one definition for me.
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Always Bad Believe Good Music Over
We wasn’t allowed inside the galleries or inside Yankee Stadium. We were writing in the street and making music.
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Allow Gallery Inside Make Music Stadium Street Writing Yankee
When I listen to Amy Winehouse, I believe that her heart and soul is in the music, or if I listen to other British artists like Duffy or Estelle. The aesthetic of it is different, and it’s my point of view. It’s not anything formulaic.
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Artist Believe Celebrity Country Heart Listen Music Other People Person Soul
If your dad died before you were born, yeah, it hurts – but it’s not like you had a connection with something that was real. Not to say it’s any better – but to have that connection and then have it ripped away was, like, the worst.
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Hip-hop has done more for race relations than most cultural icons; and I say save Martin Luther King, because his ‘I Have A Dream’ speech was realized when Obama was elected into office.
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Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in just as deep a way.
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