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.
NASWe’re all Africans, everyone – black, white, yellow.
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I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means – I love art.
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Anybody I’m dating, I don’t want them to talk about my music. I don’t talk about my music to them.
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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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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.
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You don’t know anything about respect; you don’t know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.
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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 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 can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
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I don’t go out unless I’m working. My quality time is when I’m doing nothing.
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
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Marley is someone before his time, man. He’s – he’s almost – he’s like a deity, like almost, you know what I mean?
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