I like the way hip-hop is now. It’s grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
NASHip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the 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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You can’t please everybody. You’d be crazy if you’re trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
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Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.
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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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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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I’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.
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The flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
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You don’t know anything about respect; you don’t know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
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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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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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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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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 definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun.
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