Hip-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.
NASLet’s not forget, art can sell. You ain’t gotta front all the time on your records.
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There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that’s what it’s all about in the end – everybody being happy and working it out.
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The flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
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Life Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
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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 go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that’s been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.
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I don’t know who I will collaborate with, but there’s a great chance of something happening.
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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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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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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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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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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 want to have fun. It’s a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get 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 never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
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