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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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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 think I’ve had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records.
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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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We’re all Africans, everyone – black, white, yellow.
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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 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 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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There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that’s what it’s all about in the end – everybody being happy and working it out.
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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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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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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 want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.
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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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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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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 don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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