We’re all Africans, everyone – black, white, yellow.
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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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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When you have a daughter, you want to protect her from the things that I’ve seen out there, you know, the things that’s out there that ain’t good for her. It’s a crazy world we live in.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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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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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 wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is.
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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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I see N.Y. hip-hop like I see N.Y. streets. N.Y. streets are grimy; it’s a grind. N.Y. rappers are hustlers – whatever sound is in, we can adapt to that; there’s nothing wrong with that.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of it.
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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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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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No 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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I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
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No one’s promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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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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