When I say ‘hip-hop is dead,’ basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.
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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GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she’s fearless and she’s ahead of the game. She’s ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.
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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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When you’re a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls – you want to get the most girls.
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The sound of the ’90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street – it’s a feeling.
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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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No matter who you are, black, white, green, there’s going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of it.
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I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style – and that’s what I do.
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We’re all Africans, everyone – black, white, yellow.
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can’t ask for more than that.
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DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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Stillmatic’ is the rebirth of ‘Illmatic,’ my first debut album to come out in 1994. ‘Stillmatic’ is me coming full circle in my career and with everything, and just bringing pure hip-hop back.
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DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing… At the end of the day, it’s up to us to control and to own hip-hop.
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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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