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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you listen to old-school music, you can smell your mother's food in the kitchen. You can feel where you was when you first heard that song. That's what's beautiful about music. It's for everyone, but we all have individual memories that make us love it.
- Hood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a lot of respect for Prodigy. He brought the hood to the booth. When we were trying to shape this rap thing into something, he was one of the cats I respected for bringing the hood into the booth.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Subconsciously, Islam took over me, so it was like eighty or ninety percent of the fabric of the person I was.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started studying in '85 and got knowledge of self and started spitting. What was going on was taking the understanding of what I was reading and applying it with my life and applying it with my rhymes.
- Hip-Hop
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hip-hop has taken a lot of different routes throughout the years, man. I've been around since 1986.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without no disrespect to any artist, there's a lot of degrading music out there as far as degrading the culture and degrading society as well. That's individuals that choose to make that kind of music.
- Cartoon Characters
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't look at TV without seeing something that's been influenced by rap. Even commercials for cereal. When I was small, I was a fan of cartoon characters - now the cartoon characters are rapping!
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother sang jazz and opera - she even performed at the Apollo on Amateur Night.
- Master
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eminem is a master.
- Integrity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The golden age was when people were starting to understand what hip-hop was and how to use it. I was lucky to come up then. Everybody wanted to be original and have substance; it was somewhat conscious... There was an integrity that people respected.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always say a rapper is like a halfback in the NFL. You got about seven years, then it's a wrap.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People think the older you get, the wacker you get. I think the older I get, the better I get.
- Booth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Age don't count in the booth.
- Bump
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back in the day, rappers were 'bump bump bump ba bump ba bump.' They was rhyming like that, but I was like, 'bababa bump bump babum ba babump bababa bump.'
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Playing the sax and then enjoying jazz music, man - it's like I learned how to find words inside of the beat.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love what I live, and I live Islam, so I applied it to everything I do. I applied it to my rhymes, and I felt that I wanted the people to know what I knew.
- Style
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in high school, the energy in hip-hop at that point was the park energy... I was just trying to develop my style at that point, and I think, when you're trying to find your style, you find yourself.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love, you know, a lot of jazz, John Coltrane.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
You come up, you love music, and then business interferes.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
When me and Eric did songs back in the day, we didn't go and sit down in front of no A&R. We made our album, and then, when we finished, we handed it in, and then we picked the best song for the first single.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything I did on the 'Paid in Full' album and those first three albums, I wrote everything right in the studio.
- Fan
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a fan of Jay-Z, from the negotiating table to the booth.
- I Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love what I do. I'm still humble.
- Consciousness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always tried to insert consciousness and spirituality in my records, interpreting the writings of all cultures and religions and how they apply to life in modern times.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every generation wants that real hip-hop. And I've always been able to bring that.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you look at hip-hop, I want to do that: to spit fire and take our best from the ashes to build our kingdom; to recognize all the regional styles, conscious lyrics, the tracks, underground, mainstream, the way we treat each other. Lose the garbage and rebuild our scene.
- Nov 07, 2020
I try to support my kids in what they do and, at the same time, not push them towards anything.
- Everybody
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- Nov 07, 2020
No Doubt is one of the groups that I think everybody listens to, man, and everybody loves Gwen Stefani.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a new artist, I was trying to make a good album and hope that people like Kool Moe Dee and Melle Mel and some of the firstborns appreciated it. I was being influenced by them brothers there. That's where I got my start and my first listen.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always a laid-back, subdued person, and I just try to let that speak through my music.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe I'm too sensitive to the struggle, but I think a lot of people that listen to music are trying to escape.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Jay-Z, I love Kanye, and I praise the way he's been able to bring more business out of the jungle.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes you can't forgive, but you try to forget.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Social media gives a lot of people a platform where they can express their feelings. I like to do mine through songs. I let info build up. In some way, it translates into paper whenever I sit down.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020