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 really standoffish. It’s really competitive and it’s really about who’s number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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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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Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
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Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you’re happy… Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.
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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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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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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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Let’s not forget, art can sell. You ain’t gotta front all the time on your records.
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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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All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn’t have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
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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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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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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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You can’t please everybody. You’d be crazy if you’re trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
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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 love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means – I love art.
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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 definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
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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 don’t go out unless I’m working. My quality time is when I’m doing nothing.
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No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
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You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm.
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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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You don’t know anything about respect; you don’t know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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