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.
NASYou 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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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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We’re all Africans, everyone – black, white, yellow.
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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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All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn’t have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
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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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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 never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence.
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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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I’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.
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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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I think I’ve had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records.
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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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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 think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of it.
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