"When I was a kid, hip-hop had that effect on me, it was escape and it showed me a different way of life."
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"I'm gonna be the first hip-hop designer and because of that, I'm gonna be bigger than Walmart."
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"A lot of artists have a lot of different ventures, I think it's typical for a hip hop artist, at this point, to have a bunch of different ventures."
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"Rapping is a vocal delivery, so you can do it without being part of hip-hop and not knowing what hip-hop is about."
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"It's like a paradox. For one side, being popularized rap got better and the other side of it got worse. It's very pop and it's very different now. When you make it as pop and as soft as it is, it lacks its integrity. It lacks its accountability. It lacks a lot of other things that came from that dangerous time in hip hop."
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"You the devil in drag. You can burn your cross, Well, I'll burn your flag."
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"Brothers keep asking Ice Cube, 'Yo, when will you bust?' They surround me and make a big fuss"
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"I always knew that I had to direct. That was something I'd wanted to do. Finally, I was just looking at the situation and I said, "I wanna document hip-hop, as an art form, seeing how a lot of people don't take it seriously.""
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"Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, "My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you.""
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"I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about."
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"The trick with hip-hop-hip-hop is a sport. The only music that's really, really close to a sport. It starts off, "My DJ's better than yours. I can out-rap you, I can out-dance you, my graffiti piece is better than you." It's very competitive."
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"Everyone who raps isn't hip-hop. To be hip-hop, you've got to know the culture. You got to know the history."
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"There's always going to be space for battle in hip hop. For competition. It's just an inseparable part of the game."
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"In hip hop no one cares. No one stands up for it and it's a mess. We need order so we can all follow the tradition of where we came from. We need to keep referring to the pioneers."
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"Hip-Hop is Dead cause America is dead culturally."
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"Really, really obscene hip-hop. I love it so much. It makes me laugh and then it makes me want to dance."
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"I can do what you do, easy, BELIEVE ME Frontin' niggas give me hee-bee-gee-bees"
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"It's ninety-six degrees in the shade... Before I catch blood on my blade."
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"I really got to fuse some of my hip hop & R&B background into the Jessica 6 album since I was really hands on with Morgan & Andrew while writing and producing the record."
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"I'm the lyrical vendor, hip-hop is my shop"
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