"I always tell people that if I move anywhere it would be Toronto."
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"Sometimes you have the trends that's not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don't really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It's really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it."
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"It's a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve."
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"Being where you from is a strong genetic. You can't run from it."
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"I see conflict. But the conflict is what makes it relatable. I'm conflicted; you're conflicted. I'm not perfect - nobody is. I'm just blessed to be able to express my conflict through song."
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"Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like."
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"I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn't have the recognition that I have now."
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"That's the ultimate thing I want to do in making music - to be able to inspire somebody else."
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"My folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family - and I come from a big family."
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"A lot of incredible rap albums over the past couple of decades have deserved Album of the Year. 'To Pimp a Butterfly' is an extension of those albums."
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"Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash."
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"My lyrics say I have morals, I have confidence, I have weaknesses, I have strong points, that I am a human being."
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"The HiiiPower Movement is a movement that's going on all throughout the world like a virus. It's about being on a higher level than the industry. It's a movement we started to be above all the bullshit that's been going on."
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"I don't really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make."
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"You don't hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability."
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"My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton."
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"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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"I'm Machiavelli's offspring, I'm the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both."
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"I don't vote. I don't do no voting."
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"I started doing music when I was thirteen; I actually started writing my first rhymes."
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