Stillmatic’ is the rebirth of ‘Illmatic,’ my first debut album to come out in 1994. ‘Stillmatic’ is me coming full circle in my career and with everything, and just bringing pure hip-hop back.
NASYou know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it’s like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it.
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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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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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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’m talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life.
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I’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.
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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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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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I want to have fun. It’s a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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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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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’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
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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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Life Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
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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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