I think I’ve had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records.
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 love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I’d say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.
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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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We’re all Africans, everyone – black, white, yellow.
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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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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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When you’re a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls – you want to get the most girls.
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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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I 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 definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
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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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Marley is someone before his time, man. He’s – he’s almost – he’s like a deity, like almost, you know what I mean?
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No one’s promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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I can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.
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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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