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.
NASAfrica 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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When I say ‘hip-hop is dead,’ basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.
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I’m smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I’m smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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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 think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of it.
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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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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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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 think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They’re here to criticize all of us. That’s just how it is. We as MC’s criticize each other. That’s the nature of hip-hop.
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Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it’s not up to people’s expectations anymore, its still here, and that’s says a lot.
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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun.
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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 love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I’d say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.
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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 never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me.
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