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- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing... At the end of the day, it's up to us to control and to own hip-hop. DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I say 'hip-hop is dead,' basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Circle
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Stillmatic' is the rebirth of 'Illmatic,' my first debut album to come out in 1994. 'Stillmatic' is me coming full circle in my career and with everything, and just bringing pure hip-hop back.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
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. 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.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.
- Amazing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat. I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that's been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
- Hip-Hop
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't control what people think. They know who I am.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll always love rap, no matter what's going on.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - 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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.
- Biggie
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can't please everybody. You'd be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
- Nov 07, 2020
No one's promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
- Not Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your look reflects what's happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have a daughter, you want to protect her from the things that I've seen out there, you know, the things that's out there that ain't good for her. It's a crazy world we live in.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
- Love Is
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- Nov 07, 2020
Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you're happy... Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been called everything. Gangsta rap. I've been called conscious rap. You know, everything. Whoever feels like calling it whatever they want to call it, that's on them.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020