No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
NASMy earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.
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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 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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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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I’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.
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The things that I have said when I was young and curious about whatever the subject matter was, I respect those – those are growing pains.
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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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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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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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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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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.
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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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Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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I don’t want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I’m not perfect, and I’m just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?
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