Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
NASSome people say I’m conscious, some say I’m a gangsta rapper – it’s just me doing me. I’m stomping in my own lane. I’m doing what I do.
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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’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that’s been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.
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I’ve been called everything. Gangsta rap. I’ve been called conscious rap. You know, everything. Whoever feels like calling it whatever they want to call it, that’s on them.
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I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They’re here to criticize all of us. That’s just how it is. We as MC’s criticize each other. That’s the nature of hip-hop.
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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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No one’s promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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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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I think I’ve had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records.
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I’m talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life.
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I don’t get jealousy, I don’t get how people hate each other – I never did.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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Calling Michelle ‘Obama Barack’s baby mama?’ Tell me, is that acceptable? But the Obamas aren’t the only targets. Fox’s pattern of race-baiting and fear-mongering regularly focuses on black leaders, black institutions and ordinary black people.
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It speaks to your livelihood and it’s not compromised. It’s blunt. It’s raw, straight off the street – from the beat to the voice to the words.
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