There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn’t know how many people would respect it.
NASHip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it’s not up to people’s expectations anymore, its still here, and that’s says a lot.
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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’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 just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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Stillmatic’ is the rebirth of ‘Illmatic,’ my first debut album to come out in 1994. ‘Stillmatic’ is me coming full circle in my career and with everything, and just bringing pure hip-hop back.
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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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GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she’s fearless and she’s ahead of the game. She’s ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.
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Even if you make mistakes, I go back to those things, my not-so-great moments because those are my truest moments; those are my human moments. I’m not even mad at the things I said that were a little dicey.
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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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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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I’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.
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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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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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I don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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I 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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