I’m talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life.
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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The flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
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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 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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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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Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.
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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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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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Stillmatic’ is the rebirth of ‘Illmatic,’ my first debut album to come out in 1994. ‘Stillmatic’ is me coming full circle in my career and with everything, and just bringing pure hip-hop back.
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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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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means – I love art.
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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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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence.
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No one’s promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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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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