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?
NASWe’re all Africans, everyone – black, white, yellow.
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I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me.
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Life Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
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I have no tattoos that I regret – I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.
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When you’re a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls – you want to get the most girls.
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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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Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it’s time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.
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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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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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I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I’d say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.
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I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop… We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We’re warriors. Soldiers.
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My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
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I’ve been called everything. Gangsta rap. I’ve been called conscious rap. You know, everything. Whoever feels like calling it whatever they want to call it, that’s on them.
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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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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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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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