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.
NASI never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They’re here to criticize all of us. That’s just how it is. We as MC’s criticize each other. That’s the nature of hip-hop.
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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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I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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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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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.
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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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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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I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style – and that’s what I do.
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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I think I’ve had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records.
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Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it’s not up to people’s expectations anymore, its still here, and that’s says a lot.
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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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I can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
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I have no tattoos that I regret – I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.
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Life Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
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