Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
NASI 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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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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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence.
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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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Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
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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 talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style – and that’s what I do.
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When I say ‘hip-hop is dead,’ basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.
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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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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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I’ve been called everything. Gangsta rap. I’ve been called conscious rap. You know, everything. Whoever feels like calling it whatever they want to call it, that’s on them.
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The flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
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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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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of it.
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