No matter who you are, black, white, green, there’s going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
NASHip-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 want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.
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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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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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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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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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I don’t get jealousy, I don’t get how people hate each other – I never did.
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Let’s not forget, art can sell. You ain’t gotta front all the time on your records.
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I’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.
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I think I’ve had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of it.
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I’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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It speaks to your livelihood and it’s not compromised. It’s blunt. It’s raw, straight off the street – from the beat to the voice to the words.
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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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 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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