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I started out in the Apollo Theater. That's where I got my start. I won Amateur Night four weeks in a row.
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I think I'll die underrated, but it's alright, man.
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We gotta be proud to be Latino. It's almost like we cheating because we're American and we live by American customs, but at the same time, we got that Latino culture. We cheating; we double dipping.
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Chances are if I am the one to cosign people, they will become a big part of the industry.
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I ain't no Kennedy, I ain't no Diddy Combs, I ain't no Jay Z, I ain't got it like them.
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I'm known to be hands on 100%. I don't know any other way to be than a leader by example.
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Minorities have been hustling backwards from check to check.
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Puerto Rico is a powerful island.
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I've failed once or twice real big, independent.
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Pun was just a natural-born genius with music, and he basically taught me so many tricks on how to make better music, even though I was the one that discovered him. He was so far advanced than me; he taught me a lot.
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All rappers exaggerate.
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I was really from the streets, and I really did hustle in a major way. When I got my record deal, I left the streets alone as far as hustling. I never, ever hustled again. I said, 'I'm gonna change my life, I'm going legit. This is where I'm at.'
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It feels like we all win when Joe wins. People know the struggle, everything I had to overcome. People feel like that's them winning. If Joe could do it, they could do it.
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MTV shows me love.
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KRS One and LL Cool J are the biggest influences in my rap career, along with Heavy D.
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I beefed with 50 Cent for seven years.
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Allen Iverson was the Tupac of basketball; he was a true revolutionary.
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If you really analyze my music, there is a lot of violence in my music because the Bronx, at the era and time I was coming up, was almost equivalent to how a 'Braveheart' or 'Gladiator' movie would be.
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Before I was rapping, I was always around the rap game, even though I was in the streets. I would be at all the parties and all the events, and I was pretty hard to miss. I was one of the few Spanish cats sitting there with jewelry on, Dapper Dan suits. It was pretty hard to miss me.
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I collaborate with Tidal because they're for the artists - the up and coming artists and the O.G.s in the game. It's like a home, the only place we have for the artists to find support.