Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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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The flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
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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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I don’t know who I will collaborate with, but there’s a great chance of something happening.
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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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Your look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
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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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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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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 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 think I’m that guy. I’m still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, ‘Life is good,’ to the world.
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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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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun.
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Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it’s time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.
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I’m talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life.
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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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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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I don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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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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I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.
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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 wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is.
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I had a pretty public divorce. They’re not easy – divorces – and it took me a long time to really get through.
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I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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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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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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