It’s never been seen that a street artist go as far as I’ve gone – keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.
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My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
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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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You don’t know anything about respect; you don’t know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
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I’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.
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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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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence.
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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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My 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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When you have a daughter, you want to protect her from the things that I’ve seen out there, you know, the things that’s out there that ain’t good for her. It’s a crazy world we live in.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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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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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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