No one’s promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no 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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All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn’t have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
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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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Some people say I’m conscious, some say I’m a gangsta rapper – it’s just me doing me. I’m stomping in my own lane. I’m doing what I do.
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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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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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The flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
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Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.
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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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Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.
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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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My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
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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 can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
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I don’t know who I will collaborate with, but there’s a great chance of something happening.
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Let’s not forget, art can sell. You ain’t gotta front all the time on your records.
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