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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.
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Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.
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There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn't know how many people would respect it.
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Your look reflects what's happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
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Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper – it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me.
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No matter who you are, black, white, green, there's going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
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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.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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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.
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I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out.
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I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.
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I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
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Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.
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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.
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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.
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I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.
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The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
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I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do.
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I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.
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