To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
NASN.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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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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Some 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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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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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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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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We’re all Africans, everyone – black, white, yellow.
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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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I’m not talking about Russia in my music. I’ve never been to Russia. I’m not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China.
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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun.
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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 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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When I say ‘hip-hop is dead,’ basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.
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No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
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