The things that I have said when I was young and curious about whatever the subject matter was, I respect those – those are growing pains.
NASNo matter who you are, black, white, green, there’s going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
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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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Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
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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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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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I’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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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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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’m smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I’m smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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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 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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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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Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate… I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.
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