"Respect all fear none my pride is everything"
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"No temporary chaos is worth your sanity. Just knowing that whatever happens, it happens to the best of them too."
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"If I ruled the world Imagine that..."
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"Rule No. 1 is you can't be fake. If you're fake, you become a gimmick and you're selling a gimmick; a little gimmick is cool, this is entertainment. But when you base your stuff on mostly real stuff, you never run out of it because every day is a different adventure."
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"I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death."
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"Big L scared me to death. When I heard that on tape, I was scared to death. I was like there's no way I can compete if this is what I gotta compete with."
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"Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words."
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"The greatest sin is fear and giving up."
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"I talk about Africa and its meaning, being the birthplace of man and all that great history that's been erased and even hidden. I think it's my duty to be proud and to bring about the conversation that allows us to talk about the great history of my people."
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"Your look reflects whats happening in your mind."
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"You only have one first chance to make one first impression that lasts a lifetime."
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"You are who you associate with. Look around at your five closest friends and that's who you are. If you don't want to be that person, you know what you gotta do."
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"But uhh, a thug changes, and love changes and best friends become strangers, word up"
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"I know i can, be what i wanna be, if i work hard at it, I'll be where i wanna be"
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"Use your own intuition. You are tomorrow."
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"The whole thing is, do as much as you can, when you possibly can, and don't stress."
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"Don't speak to fools, they scorn the wisdom of your words."
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"I promise you, if you have a plan, you can accomplish everything you ever wanted"
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"Some people work hard to be something that they're not, and I don't work at all, I'm just me. And that can bother anybody I'm not working nearly as hard as the other guys, and they don't like it."
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""Never stop. Never settle." I believe in this message."
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