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"Me and hip-hop have a relationship that has nothing to do with no other rapper, no matter where you from or nothing. Every n*gga got his own personal relationship with hip-hop and this is mine."
"Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained."
"All I see is sissies in magazines smiling... Whatever happened to wildin' out and being violent? Whatever happened to catching a good, old-fashioned, passionate ass whoopin'? And getting your shoes, coat and your hat tooken?"
"As an artist, I always just want to grow as a songwriter. I listen to a lot of music. I listen to music all the time, whether it's hip-hop or soul or rock or whatever. I'm always listening to music and trying to learn from other songwriters and how they tap into certain emotions and communicate more clearly."
"Let me break it down for you again, You know I only say it because I'm truly genuine: Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem."
"Stop hating on a n*gga that is a weak emotion, the lady of a n*gga."
"A lot of people forget that R&B put hip-hop on, R&B put rock on."
"Ain't no love lost, cause there was never none there."
"Mixtape legend, underground kings... Looking for the right way to do the wrong things"
"The line between playing to win and sin is thin, But I walk it with grace and I talk it with taste. I am that raw, simply put, and I rest my case."
"It does feel like sometimes that I'm the outcast. Hip-hop doesn't want to mess with me because I'm Christian and Christian music doesn't want to mess with me because I'm hip-hop."
"The thing is with hip-hop, it has its waves and the waves crash against the beach and the new waves come in. So to stay relevant you have to roll with that."
"Y'all mythological niggas is comical, The astronomical is comin' thru like tha flu bombin' you... And embalmin' in your crew, too. With the musical, mystical, magical, you know how I do."
"All these ways we classify things as R&B and hip-hop and rock... It's bullshit. It's all music. If you put yourself in that box, then you won't be able to hear that it's all music at its soul."
"Which is the other reason hip-hop is controversial: People don't bother trying to get it. The problem isn't in the rap or the rapper or the culture. The problem is that so many people don't even know how to listen to the music."
"It seems so odd to me, an odyssey How honesty is honestly the rarest thing upon us Its astonishing."
"I never see the whips niggas be claimin' they drivin, I guess 'entertainment' means blatantly lyin'."
"To me, hip-hop's been dead for years. We all should know that. With that being said, then, the object of the game now is to make money off of exploiting it. That's what it's all about - get this money. That's basically what I'm saying."
"Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it's attainable. I didn't do it any other way than through hip-hop."
"Got some, dirt on my shoulder, could you brush it off for me?"
