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If I go into a studio and find my truth of the moment, there are a number of people in the world who can relate to what I’m saying and are going to buy into what I’m doing. Not because it’s the new thing of the moment, but because it’s genuine emotion. Its how I feel. This is how I articulate the world.

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I’m just going to make the music I love to make, and I’m going to mature with my music.
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Just Love Make Mature Music
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 love what I do, and when you love what you do, you want to be the best at it.
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Best Love Want When
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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Feel History Like Logical Next Now Platform Step Vinyl
I’ve talked to Bill Clinton – he’s the ultimate rock star; no one’s more charming than him. People clap in a restaurant when he finishes dinner! I don’t get that treatment. I get it when I walk onstage, but not when I have dinner.
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My brands are an extension of me. They’re close to me. It’s not like running GM, where there’s no emotional attachment.
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Attachment Brand Close Emotional Extension Like Run
When the TV version of Annie came on, I was drawn to it. It was the struggle of this poor kid in this environment and how her life changed. It immediately resonated.
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Change Drawn Environment Kid Life Perosnm Celebrity Poor Show Struggle Televiosnm Version
I don’t profess to be a political rapper, like groups such as ‘Dead Prez’ or ‘Public Enemy’, but I think social commentary should make its way into your music. Speaking on your neighbourhood is social commentary – what happens, what’s going on.
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Commentary Enemy Group Make Political Profess Public Rapper Social Such Way
I think reviews have lost a lot of their importance now because of the Internet; everyone is experiencing things at the same time.
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Everone Experience Importance Internet Lot Review Same Time
Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I’m a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best?
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Best Compare Man Poetry Shakespeare Write Wrote Yourself
Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don’t think it’s given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely.
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I’m just making an observation. They’re crying out for the love that maybe they didn’t get at home, and they got everything.
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Cry Everything Home Love Make Maybe Obsevative
Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it’s attainable. I didn’t do it any other way than through hip-hop.
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Attainable Bring Culture Go Hip Hop Through Understand
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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Do you know how many athletes go broke three years after they stop playing? I want to help them hold on to their money. I mean, I know about budgets.
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What are you talking about? Wait a minute, you’re getting out of the zone.’ People hate when people cross lines.
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