When I say ‘hip-hop is dead,’ basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.
NASYour look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
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Your look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
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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 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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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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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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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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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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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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You can’t please everybody. You’d be crazy if you’re trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
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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 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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All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn’t have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
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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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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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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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