I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
NASI think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I’ve had, they’d look like they were through. Done. But there’s something about me.
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I don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
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I want to have fun. It’s a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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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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When I say ‘hip-hop is dead,’ basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.
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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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We’re all Africans, everyone – black, white, yellow.
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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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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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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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I don’t get jealousy, I don’t get how people hate each other – I never did.
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I’m not talking about Russia in my music. I’ve never been to Russia. I’m not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China.
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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun.
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Even if you make mistakes, I go back to those things, my not-so-great moments because those are my truest moments; those are my human moments. I’m not even mad at the things I said that were a little dicey.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.
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