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Kanye West Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
Hip Hop

"I don't know what's better: getting laid or getting paid. I just know when I'm getting one, the other's getting away."

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Nas Rapper, Songwriter
Hip Hop

"I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it."

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Kanye West Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
Hip Hop

"She said, "'Ye can we get married at the mall?" I said, "Look, you need to crawl 'fore you ball Come and meet me in the bathroom stall And show me why you deserve to have it all.""

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Jay-Z Rapper, Businessman
Hip Hop

"Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you."

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Eminem Rapper, songwriter, record producer
Hip Hop

"You can't control who likes you. If I got Backstreet Boy fans what am I supposed to do? Turn them away? Whoever likes my stuff, likes my stuff but just know Slim Shady is hip hop, 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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Kanye West Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
Hip Hop

"Went from most hated to the Champion God Flow, I guess that's a feelin' only me and LeBron know."

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Kanye West Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
Hip Hop

"You know that one auntie, you don't wanna be rude, ...But every holiday, nobody eatin' her food."

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Kendrick Lamar Rapper, Songwriter
Hip Hop

"The moment I made that decision to get in the studio and actually work and study the culture of hip-hop, then everything just started to open up and blossom for me."

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Nas Rapper, Songwriter
Hip Hop

"I'm a firm believer that we all meet up in eternity Just hope the big man show me some courtesy."

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Nas Rapper, Songwriter
Hip Hop

"Hip-hop artist, especially the older ones, are the ones who new hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new."

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Brother Ali Rapper
Hip Hop

"I would just like to see hip-hop journalism in general take a step up and match the artistry. There have been great writers in music who are the caliber of artist as a writer as the people that they're covering."

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