My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
NASSomebody 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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I can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.
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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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Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days… that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you.
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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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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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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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No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun.
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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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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’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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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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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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All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn’t have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
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