Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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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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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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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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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Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I’ve had, they’d look like they were through. Done. But there’s something about me.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of it.
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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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I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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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.
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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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I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.
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No matter who you are, black, white, green, there’s going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
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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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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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