The sound of the ’90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street – it’s a feeling.
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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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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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of it.
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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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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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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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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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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence.
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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’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 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 think I’ve had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records.
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No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
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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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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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