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 don’t know who I will collaborate with, but there’s a great chance of something happening.
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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The things that I have said when I was young and curious about whatever the subject matter was, I respect those – those are growing pains.
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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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I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.
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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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Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it’s time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.
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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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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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When I say ‘hip-hop is dead,’ basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.
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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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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence.
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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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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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