No matter who you are, black, white, green, there’s going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
NASWhenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.
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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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It’s never been seen that a street artist go as far as I’ve gone – keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face 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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I think I’m that guy. I’m still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, ‘Life is good,’ to the world.
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I just talk about what’s going on, but of course, you know, Bob, before rappers, was already laying that kind of thing down.
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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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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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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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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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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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I had a pretty public divorce. They’re not easy – divorces – and it took me a long time to really get through.
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I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style – and that’s what I do.
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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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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new – that’s what New York is about… New.
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No one’s promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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I’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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I’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.
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I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is.
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Your look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
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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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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 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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My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
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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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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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