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It’s very seductive to focus on what you don’t like as opposed to celebrating all that it is that you do.
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Or is it the mind state that's ill, creating crime rates to fill the new prisons the build
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I got my first exposure to Islam when I was 13.
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It’s one thing to be the greatest; it’s another thing to be necessary. The best are the most necessary: those who take less than they give and love more than they hate.
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With Prisoner of Conscience, the focus was - I've worked with Madlib, High Tech, Kanye West, J Dilla. I feel like I've worked with some of the greatest of all time. That's been overlooked. That's been overshadowed by the weight of the lyrics.
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Every time you ask yourself where hip-hop's going, ask yourself where you're going; how are you doing?
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Focused. I'm a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like without having to do much else.
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The founder of Crunk Feminists is a Christian. If you claim to be a Christian, but then you attack somebody for saying you should approach a problem with love, you're not being a true Christian.
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Jazz is the greatest American art form and our greatest export. We don't pay attention to the youth of jazz, don't stoke the fires creatively for the youth coming up. I feel like jazz musicians became too much of purists - with Donald Byrd doing funk jazz in the '70s.
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I support the idea that artists have to make a stand. I'm with that - you're putting the discussion on the table and you're letting people know. You're being brave as an artist and responsible to the community.
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Hopefully, we learn to appreciate hip-hop here so that it doesn't go the way of jazz.
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Hip-hop is rock & roll. What the hell is Wu-Tang but Motorhead?
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But Rawkus is integral to what I do, because the cats who started Rawkus are the first ones who really saw my vision, and gave me a platform to get it out there, so I'm definitely totally grateful for that.
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There just needs to be a gay rapper who's better than everybody. That's when that question will no longer be able to be asked.
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There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists.
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I give a damn if any fan recalls my legacy, I'm trying to live life in the sight of GOD's memory.
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Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years, it's a name that the streets taught me, a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment, and I feel I've done quite a bit with that name. [But] it's time to expand and move on.
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With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is less about style than purpose and the expression of beauty. It wasn't just about being noticed, you know?
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I was always rhyming and doing it for the love before I found out I was gonna have children and when I found out, doing it for the love wasn't enough.
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You gotta get back to your essence, Use your gifts and share your presence, Don't count your dollars 'til you count your blessings.
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When I was a teenager, the way some of these kids out here be actively gay, it would have been ridiculed in the hood. And now the hood is a bit more accepting. Begrudgingly accepting, but definitely more accepting than 20 years ago when I was a little kid. That doesn't mean that anybody should stop fighting for equality just because people are begrudgingly a little more accepting.
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Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.
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We send young white boys to the Army. We're sending young black boys to the prisons.
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You're not gonna get through life without being worshipful or devoted to something. You're either devoted to your job, or to your desires. So the best way to spend your life is to try to be devoted to prayer, to Allah.