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There's no borders or lines you can't cross anymore. Everything is getting blended with everything. That's the dope thing about music now. Some people don't like it, more of the older people. They want to, you know, go back to old-school New York hip-hop.
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A lot of rappers been putting out a lot of sub-par visuals. I feel like the visuals could be better.
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Chris Brown owns 14 of my belts. Swizz Beatz owns a zillion of my belts. They were supporting me before I was even anybody.
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I might be more satisfied seeing my friends really come up than myself. I'm really happy for my success, but I can't really see it, because I'm myself working. You can see it; everyone around me can see it.
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With 'Dope Walk,' I wanted to bring back kids dancing and having fun again. That's how it used to be in Harlem. I remember everybody Harlem-shaking and 'Chicken Noodle Soup'-ing. Those were some of the most fun and memorable times in my life.
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People who are scared don't live life.
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I'm really into simple things - things you could wear every day.
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I'm gonna put out another album and then another album after that. And then I'm gonna put out a mixtape, and then I'm gonna put out another ten songs, and then I'm gonna put out a hundred more songs and a thousand songs after that.
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I got a lot of fans who are not even into fashion. So they look at me and wear what I wear because it's cool or looks cool.
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I don't have a problem with how people receive the music. I feel like it's for everybody.
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Andy Warhol's art wasn't that interesting to me. He was more interesting to me as a person. He was art himself. I don't even think he was really into art, per se. He may have liked to do it, but I think he was more into people being into him.
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I'm an animal lover.
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DMX was just one of the figures that I thought no one could ever be better than. I used to look up to him so much. The bikes, the dogs, that's where I come from.
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Racism been over. It's the old people that keep on holding on to it.
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There's no racism with the Internet.
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I make music for the whole world, not just one borough.
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I don't have a specific style. My style is unorthodox; that is my style. So you can't really place me here, place me there, because my style is just to be anywhere, you know what I'm saying?
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I used to do design before I was actually rapping. I went to art and design high school.
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I always shout out my dad. My artistic roots come from him. He had his own T-shirt company and taught me the trade.
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When I was growing up, I saw the Aaliyah shirts, the DMX shirts, or the collab shirts with DMX and Aaliyah when they had a single together. Those were the dope collage shirts with their faces all over it. They were doing cool things like that.
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I'm happy, so I just want to project that happiness through my music to make other people happy.
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'Trap Lord' is basically the writer of the hood. It's the kid that's from the hood, from the trap, who's going to preach to his friends and his homies. Because they're not going to sit in no church. So they listen to me instead of going to a church, because I understand them, and that's really what the 'Hood Pope' is.
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It's kind of hard for you to be doing huge things and still be knowing what's happening on the street level.
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I'm relevant because I fill a void for people who aren't doing what they want to do in life.