I’ve been called everything. Gangsta rap. I’ve been called conscious rap. You know, everything. Whoever feels like calling it whatever they want to call it, that’s on them.
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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Marley is someone before his time, man. He’s – he’s almost – he’s like a deity, like almost, you know what I mean?
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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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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DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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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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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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When I say ‘hip-hop is dead,’ basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.
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I don’t go out unless I’m working. My quality time is when I’m doing nothing.
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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 record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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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 think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I’ve had, they’d look like they were through. Done. But there’s something about me.
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You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it’s like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it.
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When you’re a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls – you want to get the most girls.
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