Let’s not forget, art can sell. You ain’t gotta front all the time on your records.
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You 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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Let’s not forget, art can sell. You ain’t gotta front all the time on your records.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of it.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I’ve had, they’d look like they were through. Done. But there’s something about me.
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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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I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means – I love art.
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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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I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like 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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I like the way hip-hop is now. It’s grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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Anybody I’m dating, I don’t want them to talk about my music. I don’t talk about my music to them.
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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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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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You 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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