I’ve been called everything. Gangsta rap. I’ve been called conscious rap. You know, everything. Whoever feels like calling it whatever they want to call it, that’s on them.
NASI 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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There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn’t know how many people would respect it.
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it’s not up to people’s expectations anymore, its still here, and that’s says a lot.
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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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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 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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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing… At the end of the day, it’s up to us to control and to own hip-hop.
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We’re all Africans, everyone – black, white, yellow.
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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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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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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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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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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of it.
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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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