No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
NASMy 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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No one’s promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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I’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.
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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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I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can’t ask for more than that.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of it.
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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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I like the way hip-hop is now. It’s grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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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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GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she’s fearless and she’s ahead of the game. She’s ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.
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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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Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.
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There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that’s what it’s all about in the end – everybody being happy and working it out.
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I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They’re here to criticize all of us. That’s just how it is. We as MC’s criticize each other. That’s the nature of hip-hop.
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