I don’t go out unless I’m working. My quality time is when I’m doing nothing.
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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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.
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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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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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When you’re a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls – you want to get the most girls.
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Calling Michelle ‘Obama Barack’s baby mama?’ Tell me, is that acceptable? But the Obamas aren’t the only targets. Fox’s pattern of race-baiting and fear-mongering regularly focuses on black leaders, black institutions and ordinary black people.
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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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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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DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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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 definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
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I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that’s been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.
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Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you’re happy… Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.
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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun.
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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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Your look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
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