I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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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 never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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The things that I have said when I was young and curious about whatever the subject matter was, I respect those – those are growing pains.
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I just talk about what’s going on, but of course, you know, Bob, before rappers, was already laying that kind of thing down.
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My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
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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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Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.
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I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop… We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We’re warriors. Soldiers.
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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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The flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
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I had a pretty public divorce. They’re not easy – divorces – and it took me a long time to really get through.
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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’m talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life.
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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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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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