With age comes common sense and wisdom.
NASI just talk about what’s going on, but of course, you know, Bob, before rappers, was already laying that kind of thing down.
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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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 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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Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.
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You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it’s like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it.
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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Life Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of it.
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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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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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I like the way hip-hop is now. It’s grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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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 don’t want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I’m not perfect, and I’m just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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Hip-hop is really standoffish. It’s really competitive and it’s really about who’s number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.
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