"No matter what part of the country you come from, you can always come together to make groundbreaking hip-hop."
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"I can think of no one more relevant and credible in the hip-hop community to build upon Def Jam's fantastic legacy and move the company into its next groundbreaking era."
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"I love hip-hop music, ... It's rebel music is how I like to speak about it. Hip-hop and reggae come from the same community as far as class...they both come from the bottom of society."
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"Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and 'I'm better at you than that.'"
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"They call me superman, I'm here to rescue you."
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"Now when it comes to getting bread I got the keys to the bakery"
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"There's a number of hip-hop artists who are highly talented but politically retrograde."
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"As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto."
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"i'm okay.. is that what you really want me to say?"
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"They say pu$$y and paper is poetry power and pistols."
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"God damn! Drug dealers dealin' to the kiddies, Livin' in the city ain't no pity on the itty-bitty. We try to cry, but still they all die, I try to speak to the youth, and the truth is: they all high."
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"I was fed by the music I listened to as a kid. Hip-hop fed me psychologically, spiritually, politically. I learned from that music."
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"I have a very family-like connection to hip-hop, which is why it frustrates me so much."
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"I've been listening to the old school hip-hop stuff and rock like The Beatles and the Rolling Stones."
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"Turn that 62 to 125, 125 to 250, 250 to half a million, ain't nothing nobody can do with me."
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"You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop."
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"Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets."
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"You ask me, "Did I like Arsenio?" About as much as the Bicentennial."
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"I rap for listeners, blunt heads, fly ladies and prisoners"
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"I expect the hip-hop audience to be avant garde. I want them to be where I'm at or beyond where I'm at."
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