"When I try to sound like the contemporary sound, it never turns out that way."
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"All on the street, you get treated like a street cat: "All right, you've been eatin' enough, you're fat, get out of the way now and let somebody else come by.""
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"I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it."
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"Used to ride with him to Brooklyn, Lewis and Halsey, co chocolate thai, vernon style and burn it down"
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"Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it."
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"I think more people want to be rappers than anything else."
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"I push my own limits every day, every moment - in the studio, on the stage and beyond so it's truly a genuine fit."
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"You know the block was ill as a youngster Every night it was like a, cop would get killed body found in the dumpster"
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"There's always going to be space for battle in hip hop. For competition. It's just an inseparable part of the game."
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"In hip hop no one cares. No one stands up for it and it's a mess. We need order so we can all follow the tradition of where we came from. We need to keep referring to the pioneers."
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"You don't want to disappoint. Especially someone like me who's been out of music for years and hasn't had an album in like, four years."
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"When your so focused on what people say, how can your really be focused on the music? If you're concerned with what someone says, you aren't working on a real record. You're working on something that's just for now, to please people this very second... because you don't believe in yourself."
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"Hip-Hop is Dead cause America is dead culturally."
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