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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I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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Your look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
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Anybody I’m dating, I don’t want them to talk about my music. I don’t talk about my music to them.
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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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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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Let’s not forget, art can sell. You ain’t gotta front all the time on your records.
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Somebody 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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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.
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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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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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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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There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn’t know how many people would respect it.
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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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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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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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