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Everyone’s supposed to stay in their lines and be neat. ‘You’re a rapper. You’re supposed to rap, carry a boom box, wear chains, and go to the club – that’s all you do. What are you doing collecting art?

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I don’t have any fear of working with Samsung because I’m not gonna let them put a phone on my forehead; that’s just never gonna happen.
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Before Fear Forhead Gonna Happen Phone Put Samsung Work
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
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.
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Aspire Complain Kid Lifestyle Made Mean Move Poor Rich
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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Dep Emotion Get Make Movie Rap Song Story Way
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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Artist Beginning Businessman CEO Force Record Try
Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that’s the foundation for everything great.
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Belief Everything Foundation Great Know Mean Oneself
I’ve got a nice collection of paintings – a Basquiat, a black-and-white Warhol that’s like a Rorschach test, and I commissioned Takashi Murakami to do a ten-foot joint for me. It’s almost like the explosion in Hiroshima with his famous skeleton head. There’s a wall above my fireplace reserved for it.
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Collection Commission Country Nice Painting Person Test White
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
I love what I do, and when you love what you do, you want to be the best at it.
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As an artist, you make music. And if you see people who don’t know how to market your music, you get involved in it. Otherwise, what you want to accomplish ‘gets lost in translation’ – no pun intended.
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Artist Intend Involved Make Market Music People See Translate
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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Growing up, politics never trickled down to the areas we come from. But people from Obama’s camp, and Obama himself, reached out to me and asked for my help on the campaign. We’ve sat and had dinner, and we’ve spoken on the phone. He’s a very sharp guy. Very charming. Very cool.
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Are Camp Come Country Down From Grow Itself People Politics President Reach Trick
Primarily I see myself as so much more than a rapper. I really believe I am the voice for a lot of people who don’t have that microphone or who can’t rap.
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Believe Lot Microphone More Much Myself People Primarily Rapper Really Voice
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
You make your first album, you make some money, and you feel like you still have to show face, like ‘I still go to the projects.’ I’m like, why? Your job is to inspire people from your neighborhood to get out. You grew up there. What makes you think it’s so cool?
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Companies that pretend to care about music and really care about other things – whether it be hardware, whether it be advertising – and now they look at music as a loss leader. And we know music isn’t a loss leader; music is an important part of our lives.
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Advertise Care Company Hardware Music Other Pretend Relly Thing

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