"Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand."
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"Hip-hop ain't died because of the South, that's retarded."
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"Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!"
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"I'm trying to open up my range and really sing more. With The Fugees initially, and even with 'Miseducation,' it was very hip-hop - always a singing over beats. I don't think people have really heard me sing out. So if I do record again, perhaps it will have an expanded context. Where people can hear a bit more."
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"I'm not sayin I'm a pothead, cause I'm not. I'm just sayin that I smoke a lot."
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"Got more milky syllables than alphabet cereals."
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"Stop tryin to be loud as me, cause you can't do that, Think about it...playing Russian roulette with an automatic!"
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"I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop."
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"That's what I love from metal, and that's what I love from hip-hop. That's what I love from any music that's hard, that's got an edge to it-The attitude in it."
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"Ex-D-boy, used to park my Beamer Now look at me, I can park in my own arena"
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"Can I hit it in the morning with out giving you have of my dough?"
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"Now if I worry too much about all my have nots, I might not recognize just what I've got."
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"I'm a fan of hip hop music, so I always used a hip hop element in my music anyway."
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"I grew up on Hip Hop, it's the music I love and it's the music I respect. I respect the culture...that's me."
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"I think hip-hop can be prophetic and progressive, and at the same time, the dominant forms tend to be homophobic, misogynistic and something that we need to critically call into question."
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"There's the shared imagery between hip-hop and comics, with some producers and emcees taking on super hero personas."
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"You are what you listen to"
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"Hip-hop music was something I grew up with, it was something that I loved since I was a little kid, and it's something that I chose to partake in an early age."
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"Slavery is more mental than anything"
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"Oh am I late? No, I already graduated And you can live through anything if Magic made it They say I talk with so much emphasis Ooh they so sensitive"
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