I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop… We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We’re warriors. Soldiers.
NASI’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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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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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence.
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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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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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Hip-hop is really standoffish. It’s really competitive and it’s really about who’s number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.
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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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Even if you make mistakes, I go back to those things, my not-so-great moments because those are my truest moments; those are my human moments. I’m not even mad at the things I said that were a little dicey.
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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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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 definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
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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 wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is.
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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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My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
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