Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun.
NASGaGa 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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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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I’m a big fan of Common. I’m a big fan of Scarface; I’m a big fan of so many people, from Jeezy to… well, there are a lot of people’s music that I respect.
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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They’re here to criticize all of us. That’s just how it is. We as MC’s criticize each other. That’s the nature of hip-hop.
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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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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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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 have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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The flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
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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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The sound of the ’90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street – it’s a feeling.
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I’m smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I’m smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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Some people say I’m conscious, some say I’m a gangsta rapper – it’s just me doing me. I’m stomping in my own lane. I’m doing what I do.
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We’re all Africans, everyone – black, white, yellow.
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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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