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’m a big fan of Common. I’m a big fan of Scarface; I’m a big fan of so many people, from Jeezy to… well, there are a lot of people’s music that I respect.
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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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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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I’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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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 want to have fun. It’s a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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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 a big fan of Common. I’m a big fan of Scarface; I’m a big fan of so many people, from Jeezy to… well, there are a lot of people’s music that I respect.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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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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Life Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun.
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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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Hip-hop is really standoffish. It’s really competitive and it’s really about who’s number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.
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I can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
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I see N.Y. hip-hop like I see N.Y. streets. N.Y. streets are grimy; it’s a grind. N.Y. rappers are hustlers – whatever sound is in, we can adapt to that; there’s nothing wrong with that.
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