Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days… that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you.
NASThere 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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I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun.
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.
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My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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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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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 talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style – and that’s what I do.
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I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.
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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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DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing… At the end of the day, it’s up to us to control and to own hip-hop.
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The sound of the ’90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street – it’s a feeling.
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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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