I think people are into me because of my music choices and my musicality.
TALIB KWELICrunk Feminist Collective, I think, is a noble endeavor, and any group of young women coming together to uplift women, especially being run by women of color, I have no choice but to support that. But they’re dead wrong on me.
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Michael Bloomberg is a sensible guy. He’s just privileged. He’s a goddamn billionaire, and he or his family members have never had to deal with anything as remotely degrading as stop and frisk. So he has no point of reference.
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So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the direction of rappers just being honest with themselves, whether you’re talking about Common and Mos Def or Nas and 50 cent.
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I met Mos Def around that time but I didn’t hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18.
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These niggaz ain’t thugs, the real thugs is the government. Don’t matter if you Independent, Democrat or Republican, Niggaz politickin’ the street, get into beef, Start blastin’…now a new cat is executive chief.
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If lyrics sold then truth be told/I’d probably be just as rich and famous as Jay-Z.
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People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it’s a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star.
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Crunk Feminist Collective, I think, is a noble endeavor, and any group of young women coming together to uplift women, especially being run by women of color, I have no choice but to support that. But they’re dead wrong on me.
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So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there’s a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output.
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As far as my New York influence, one thing I’m proud of in my career is, I rep Brooklyn, New York all day. But people don’t look at my music as New York music. People consider my music underground music.
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Honestly, you have to take care of yourself. That’s probably something I have learned on the road.
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I remember looking back on a photo of me… wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don’t know what fits.
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What’s more condescending and corny than someone telling you how much more money they have than you and telling you basically, ‘I don’t care about poor people,’ which is a large part of what you hear of corporate hip-hop on the radio.
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Coltrane had a sax, Dale Earnhardt drives a race car and everybody has their tools.
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My kids are the most inspiring thing that pushes me. It used to be because they were born, and I had to take care of them. Now it’s because my son raps, and he’s better than me. So now I gotta keep up with him, you know what I’m saying?
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The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.
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