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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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My radio, believe me, I like it loud, I'm the man with a box that can rock the crowd. Walkin' down the street, to the hardcore beat While my JVC vibrates the concrete.
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Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles.
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I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
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We got to mediate our greedy levels, Cause the lust of currency can have us sleepin with the devil.
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Hip-hop is a perfect mix between poetry and boxing.
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Hip-hop is more than music, it's a culture. It's bigger than hit songs.
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I'm a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
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Beef is not what Jay said to Nas; Beef is when the working folks can't find jobs.
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The hip-hop variants were a really special initiative that caught fire in the outside world.
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The steak ain't right without the A-1
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I'm funkier than a locker room after a hoop game.
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I am not one to brag but to tell you the truth mang,
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They're gonna try to tell you no, shatter all your dreams. But you gotta get up and go and think of better things.
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I come from a place, with all due respect, who's never had a music star in hip-hop. So the odds is already against me.
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I didn't get into rap to be no lyrical genius. I got into rap to feed my family and help the people in need around me, that's it. A lot of people say, 'Man, Waka Flocka ain't go no lyrics,' so I was like, 'Yeah, you right!'
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For me, I like old-school rap music. There was a time when music was so, so rich overall, and the content of what people talked about was so deep on every level, song-for-song, pound-for-pound, and on radio, there was so much content. I gravitate more towards that type of music, to be honest.
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I think that hip-hop has done what it was supposed to have done, which is it defied all the laws of what is statistically a music genre and what statistically is not a music genre. Because it wasn't supposed to be here.
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I can admit there are some problems in hip hop but it is only a reflection of what's taking place in our society. Hip hop is sick because America is sick.
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I see myself as the ambassador of hip-hop. I do songs with people from everywhere. We ain't got nothing but love.
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With The Fugees initially, and even with 'Miseducation', it was very hip-hop - always a singing over beats. I don't think people have really heard me sing out. So if I do record again, perhaps it will have an expanded context. Where people can hear a bit more.
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All the forms of popular music from jazz to hip-hop, to bebop, to soul come from black innovation. You talk about different dances from the catwalk, to the jitterbug, to the Charleston, to break dancing -\-\ all these are forms of black dancing...What would [life] be without a song, without a dance, and joy and laughter, and music.
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Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.
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Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.
