"My record company had to beg me to stop filmin' music videos in the projects. No matter what the song was about, I had 'em out there."
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"Some people say I'm saying what they wanna say. Some people don't agree. Some people are outraged. Some people want to see what the album is about. To me, hip-hop's been dead for years. We all should know that, come on. 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."
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"Hip-hop is bigger than the South, hip-hop is bigger than New York."
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"Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them."
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"I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop... We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We're warriors. Soldiers."
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"On the reals, all these crab niggaz know the deal, When we start the revolution, all they'll probably do is squeal."
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"Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight."
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"I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through."
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"Jamaican music can be aggressive, soulful, smooth and exciting all at once - just like hip-hop. At the same time, there's nothing like Jamaica in the United States. Jamaica is its own thing."
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"So many affluent men are faced with finding love problems. I'm sure beautiful, affluent women are faced with the same things sometimes."
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"I don't kill soloists only kill squads"
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"Hip hop started in NY so it's important that New Yorkers realise that to talk about NY music and its sound should not be a small-minded conversation. Music is supposed to evolve. It's supposed to be going through changes, it's not supposed to sound exactly the same as what it did when it started. NY hip hop has to be allowed to move on and grow and expand."
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"There's not one person in the world that's not a living, walking contradiction."
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"I had been through, of course, the divorce and I had been hit with some taxes that really showed me to be careful who's working with you and your money, and you have to be the one that is responsible for your money - you can't trust anyone and I did and I ran into a problem."
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"When I try to sound like the contemporary sound, it never turns out that way. That's just me."
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"I think most albums deserve a documentary because [an album] is a visual book. You don't have to read up on it because you can listen and watch the whole story. I would love to see lots of albums [become films.]"
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"To me, it's an honour to be accepted as a hip hop artist, it gives me a lot of opportunity to express myself."
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"Today, with the media, the internet, things get out there about anybody, anytime, so there's nothing wrong about talking about your life, because someone else is going to talk about it and mess it up."
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"New York city is full of great spaces. The best spaces of the world are here. This is the new Europe, where the settlers came and busted out their ideas and put it down so there's nothing but great space in this great city."
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"Mostly every form of American music is dead. It's been dead. R&B isn't really good. You got a handful of great guys - Ne-Yo, R. Kelly, Usher. You have a handful of great female artists. But for the most part the music world's changing and change is good. You have to make adjustments if you want to survive in that world. You start to thinking about creative moments - bliss. When everything was all good. You realize that in comparison to the way hip-hop started off, where we should be at right now is not there."
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