Your look reflects what’s happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
NASYou can’t please everybody. You’d be crazy if you’re trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
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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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I don’t get jealousy, I don’t get how people hate each other – I never did.
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You 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 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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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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The sound of the ’90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street – it’s a feeling.
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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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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 never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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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 don’t go out unless I’m working. My quality time is when I’m doing nothing.
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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects.
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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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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.
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You don’t know anything about respect; you don’t know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
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