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.
NASWhenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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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.
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GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she’s fearless and she’s ahead of the game. She’s ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.
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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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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.
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The sound of the ’90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street – it’s a feeling.
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Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it’s time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.
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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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When you’re a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls – you want to get the most girls.
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I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.
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We’re all Africans, everyone – black, white, yellow.
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I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
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Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.
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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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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun.
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