Black Star Quotes
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Yo, I heard it's said the revolution won't be televised But in the land of milk and honey there's a date you gotta sell it by Otherwise it just expires and spoils and these folks jump out the pot when the water too hot
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Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.
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My personal take on politics is I deal with social situations and cultural situations in my music and in my life. I have said on record many times that I haven't voted. I'm not the type of person who says, 'I'm never going to vote.' I think it's clear to me that our system has failed us.
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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 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.
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You have to learn how to harness technology so you can use it for positive stuff without being disconnected from nature.
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You want to know how to rhyme, then learn how to add. It's mathematics.
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I think people are into me because of my music choices and my musicality.
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I've been fortunate with my acting career. A lot of scripts come to me. I don't mind auditioning if something that requires that, but I haven't had to in awhile, which is a nice place to be 'cause I've been on quite a lot of auditions in my life.
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I seen her on the ave, spotted her more than once. Ass so fat that you could see it from the front.
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Learn how to heal yourself and stop fucking with them hospitals
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Those who would trade in their freedom For their protection deserve neither
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I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.
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My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York University. So he listened to, you know, Motown, and he listened to Bob Dylan. He listened to Grateful Dead and Rolling Stones, but he also listened to reggae music. And he collected vinyl.
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I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.
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I don't think that early hip hop stood out to be a social critique. A lot of fans of mine think that hip hop's ultimate responsibility is to critique social structures.
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Before Eminem, the idea that there would be a white rapper that anybody would really check for was fantastic or amazing or impossible.
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I feel like your city - with hip hop in particular, because we're always beating our chest and shouting where we're from - your city is just as influential as your parents. Even the grimy, hardcore gangster rap from New York - KRS-One and Wu Tang, the stuff acknowledges it.
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If I'm performing with a DJ, it's all on me to draw the energy. I like the camaraderie of a band.
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The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.
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Hip-hop is a beautiful culture. It's inspirational, because it's a culture of survivors. You can create beauty out of nothingness.
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Creating crime rates to fill the new prisons they build Over money and religion theres more blood that spills Like the wounds of slaves in cotton fields that never heal Whats the deal?
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And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.
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I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.