I think I’ve had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records.
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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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 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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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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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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No matter who you are, black, white, green, there’s going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of 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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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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I don’t go out unless I’m working. My quality time is when I’m doing nothing.
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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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No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
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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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Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
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I have no tattoos that I regret – I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.
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I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can’t ask for more than that.
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