"I get freedom out of hip-hop. I get to be a true artist without any shackles or harnesses."
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"When you go to South Africa, you get a different vibe and a different sound. The music is awesome the people are loving it. When you go to Botswana, it's a different ball game. The people out there love Afro Beat Hip Hop so much. When you go to Sierra Leone it's different, when you go to Nigeria it's different... It's all pretty exciting!"
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"Hip-hop is bigger than the South, hip-hop is bigger than New York."
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"On the reals, all these crab niggaz know the deal, When we start the revolution, all they'll probably do is squeal."
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"Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight."
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"They say you're nobody til somebody kills you But where I'm from you're nobody til you kill somebody"
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"Hip-hop is a perfect mix between poetry and boxing."
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"I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they'll do wonders. I count on them."
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"When I die, so does hip hop."
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"Everybody got a deal, I did it without one"
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"And this is the only sound you should fear, man these kids wear crowns over here and everything is alright"
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"I think that when I did the Methods Of Mayhem record, some of the hip-hop stuff probably freaked a lot of Motley Crue fans out."
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"I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the "black people's CNN." Well now, hip-hop is more like Fox News. It's biased, and highly suspect."
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"Jamaican music can be aggressive, soulful, smooth and exciting all at once - just like hip-hop. At the same time, there's nothing like Jamaica in the United States. Jamaica is its own thing."
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"Hip hop started in NY so it's important that New Yorkers realise that to talk about NY music and its sound should not be a small-minded conversation. Music is supposed to evolve. It's supposed to be going through changes, it's not supposed to sound exactly the same as what it did when it started. NY hip hop has to be allowed to move on and grow and expand."
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"The Nets' a stone throw from where I used to throw bricks ...So it's only right I'm still tossing 'round Knicks."
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"Week before that, I was out in Italy Italian heart-throbs could not get rid of me"
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"You ain't heard that we swallow guys?"
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"Hip hop has evolved, thankfully. Kids are making music that is important to their lives and outlooks."
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"Cuz this is what happens when bad meets evil We hit the trees till we look like Vietnamese people"
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