"We've been sold a concept of joy through advertising. It was somehow sold to us through a Gucci bag or something."
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"I gotta new strategy it's called no strategy. And I gotta way to sell more music its called make better music."
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"I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn."
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"People say, 'What do you mean you want to help the world, but you're so concerned about fashion?' It's illegal to be naked. It is something that is extremely important."
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"I'm a pop enigma. I live and breathe every element in life. I rock a bespoke suit and I go to Harold's for fried chicken. It's all these things at once, because, as a taste maker, I find the best of everything. There's certain things that black people are the best at and certain things that white people are the best at. Whatever we as black people are the best at, I'ma go get that. Like, on Christmas I don't want any food that tastes white. And when I go to purchase a house, I don't want my credit to look black."
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"The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?' And, 'How does creativity apply across the board?'"
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"No one is looking at what President Obama is wearing. Michelle Obama cannot Instagram a bikini pic like what my girl Instagrammed the other day."
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"Everybody in hip-hop discriminates against gay people. Matter of fact, the exact opposite word of 'hip-hop,' I think, is 'gay.' Like yo, you play a record and if it's wack, 'That's gay, dog!' And I wanna just come on TV and just tell my rappers, just tell my friends, 'Yo, stop it, fam.'"
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"I'm like a vessel, and God has chosen me to be the voice and the connector."
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"I completely lost everything, but I gained everything because I lost the fear."
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"I live and breathe every element in life."
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"Went from most hated to the Champion God Flow, I guess that's a feelin' only me and LeBron know."
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"You know that one auntie, you don't wanna be rude, ...But every holiday, nobody eatin' her food."
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"Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music."
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"Keep rockin', and keep knockin' Whether you Louis Vuitton it up or Reebokin' You see the hate, that they're servin' on a platter So what we gon' have, dessert or disaster?"
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"I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then."
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"Fashion breaks my heart."
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"I understand culture. I am the nucleus."
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"Benjamin Franklin didnt win 21 Grammys right?"
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"What's the main thing that makes magic magic? The fact that no one believes that it's possible."
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