I’m a big fan of Common. I’m a big fan of Scarface; I’m a big fan of so many people, from Jeezy to… well, there are a lot of people’s music that I respect.
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Marley is someone before his time, man. He’s – he’s almost – he’s like a deity, like almost, you know what I mean?
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I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is.
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I’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.
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I had a pretty public divorce. They’re not easy – divorces – and it took me a long time to really get through.
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can’t ask for more than that.
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There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that’s what it’s all about in the end – everybody being happy and working it out.
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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence.
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When you’re a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls – you want to get the most girls.
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Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it’s time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style – and that’s what I do.
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I have no tattoos that I regret – I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.
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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new – that’s what New York is about… New.
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You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm.
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