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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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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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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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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'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET.
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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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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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Man, I smashed her like an Idaho Potato
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Learn how to heal yourself and stop fucking with them hospitals
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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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Everybody could write, deejay, rap. Everybody could do it all.
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I'd bet a million dollars on DOOM against Lil' Wayne
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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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Beef is not what Jay said to Nas; Beef is when the working folks can't find jobs.
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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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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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Hip hop has always been, for us, for artists who are pure to the craft - any place overseas, whether it's Australia, any place in Asia, Germany, Africa, it becomes something where you can still go and work. Hip hop is an import culture. We're spoiled by it here. It's homegrown.
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Fuck the harder way, I'm doing it the smarter way
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And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.
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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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The most important time in history is - NOW - the present, So count your blessings cause time can't define the essence.
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I'm blacked than midnight on Broadway and Myrtle
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I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good at it.