I don’t go out unless I’m working. My quality time is when I’m doing nothing.
NASThere 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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I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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Some people say I’m conscious, some say I’m a gangsta rapper – it’s just me doing me. I’m stomping in my own lane. I’m doing what I do.
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When you have a daughter, you want to protect her from the things that I’ve seen out there, you know, the things that’s out there that ain’t good for her. It’s a crazy world we live in.
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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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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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Anybody I’m dating, I don’t want them to talk about my music. I don’t talk about my music to them.
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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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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun.
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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new – that’s what New York is about… New.
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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’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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I don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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It speaks to your livelihood and it’s not compromised. It’s blunt. It’s raw, straight off the street – from the beat to the voice to the words.
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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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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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