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Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.
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Music is not an exact science so depending on the time and the mode and the energy when we do it that will determine what happens with it.
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It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big pop hits, actually some of the biggest pop hits that hip-hop has ever seen, people are missing that part of their story. People are not counting that blessing.
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I think hip-hop is no more misogynistic than America is as a society. I just think hip-hop is a lot more brash, a lot more bold, a lot more loquacious. There are a lot more words that go into a hip-hop song than go into a regular song.
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The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.
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Speech is my hammer bang the world into shape now let it fall - HUNGH
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There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
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I believe the projects were a social experiment; we were laboratory rats stacked on top of each other, and people just knew, inherently, that there was something wrong. There's not a lot of regard for the property by the residents.
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I think the line is where you're in the studio, you're creating. That belongs to you as an artist. Nothing should taint that. I shouldn't be thinking about what the fans want, I shouldn't be thinking about what the radio wants, what the label wants, what your manager wants, a song for the chicks, a song for the street.
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Hip-hop is a vehicle.
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Honestly, you have to take care of yourself. That's probably something I have learned on the road.
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If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.
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At exactly which point do you start to realize, that life without knowledge is death in disguise?
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I think people are into me because of my music choices and my musicality.
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We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.
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There are a lot of people who call themselves teachers or leaders, but they're really just propagandists.
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I don't feel comfortable making empty music.
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That's what hip-hop is: It's sociology and English put to a beat, you know.
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When I'm in the studio, I'm strictly thinking about the beats, the rhymes and the song. The decision I make once the songs are created, and there's a barcode put on the package, and I'm out there in the street selling it, those decisions as a businessman are different than the creative decisions you make.
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A lot of these people, these program directors, just like anybody else in the world, even though they're supposed to be leaders in the world, they're followers. They follow what they think someone else is doing, instead of trying to blaze a trail.
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You want to know how to rhyme, then learn how to add. It's mathematics.
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I'm not looking to set a standard... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work.
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Twitter freaks me out. You have followers? It feels so obsessive and proprietary.
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I have no confidence issues with the impact or the quality of the music. No one in hip-hop, before this point and to this point, with all due respect, has done this.