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I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. I'm looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate.
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But even creeps deserve to live someplace halfway decent.
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The only way for me to be an artist is to be honest in my craft. If I veer from that, I'm not giving the investors what they want. Sometimes it's my job as an artist to know what I want to do, even when the fans tell me different.
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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 think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.
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I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET.
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Man, I smashed her like an Idaho Potato
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Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals.
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It's possible and available to any artist to be himself or herself on their own terms, to be accepted and embraced by black people. You don't have to be a thug to get love from black people.
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I get reminded a lot of the time that my life is a little bit different, but I'm just trying to keep it as regular as possible because I like it that way
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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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I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition that they represent.
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Learn how to heal yourself and stop fucking with them hospitals
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Everybody could write, deejay, rap. Everybody could do it all.
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When you have a voice and a platform and you know better, it becomes your moral obligation to support that community. And by extension, you're supporting your family.
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Niggas with knowledge are more dangerous than niggas with guns. They make the guns easy to get and try to keep niggas dumb
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I'm spinning records and I look across the restaurant and I see somebody who looks Asian. And I'm like, "Yo, that looks like Yoko Ono." I'm like, oh, I can just meet - that's going to be great. Then I look carefully and I'm like, "That's not Yoko Ono, that's Bruno Mars." And it was Bruno Mars. That just happened recently. I was bugging out. Because that was totally not Yoko Ono at all.
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By the time you get into other kinds of music - R&B, country, or whatever - it becomes something that's romantic. It becomes something unattainable. Never-ending undying love. And in hip hop, we're still taking direct inspiration.
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Do the math: You never settle for less than the whole if you knew the half.
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Fuck the harder way, I'm doing it the smarter way
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Beef is not what Jay said to Nas; Beef is when the working folks can't find jobs.
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They ask me what I'm writing for - I'm writing to show you what we're fighting for.
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It wouldn't be fair to cast aspersions on an entire cultural movement based on the actions of a few. To quote my grandfather, 'One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch.'
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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.