Hip-hop is about tearing down the system to better it, tearing down the system to better themselves. No matter how flimsy it might seem, they always wanted the finer things in life.
RUSSELL SIMMONSThat happens to me everyday. I watch my thoughts, not only on the mat, but all through the day.
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Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.
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Well, it’s the last step of the Civil Rights Movement: you know, wrap your hands around some money.
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The artists are now big brands.
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Not every move you make has to be a great leap
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Gangsta rappers, they call them. Not nearly as gangsta as the things that inspire them.. you know, a gangsta government that we operate under.
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Culture in America and everywhere else comes from the suffering, from those who don’t want the old ways. They want to bring in the new, whether it’s the ballet, when it started, or Shakespeare.
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If it feels like your life has become a nasty, brackish puddle of water, never forget that you do possess the power to transform it into a beautiful, rushing stream that will carry you to enlightenment.
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When you’re a good giver you’re a good getter.
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I think that’s what made rap such a stable footprint in culture, that it’s so honest.
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I don’t believe that people create their own visions. Rather, I believe that visions are actually God’s way of communicating with us.
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If you just remember to breathe and smile before you act, you’ll always make the right decision.
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I think the artist’s job throughout history has been to tell – to say things that people are inspired by.
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I think Hollywood is incredibly segregated. I’ve never seen any place like it. The gatekeepers who are the most progressive activists inspired to make the world better… they’re better people, right? They’re segregated. It’s self segregated in some cases, but there’s nobody Black in charge of anything in Hollywood.
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I want people to be free and to be able to express themselves, to find the best ways to say things so that people can digest them.
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If you don’t break a hole through the brick wall, don’t just start digging a new hole. Keep going until you break through that wall.
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