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"When I made Illmatic, I was trying to make the perfect album. It comes from the days of Wild Style. I was trying to make you experience my life. I wanted you to look at hip-hop differently. I wanted you to feel that hip-hop was changing and becoming something more real."
"I'm just flowing through, when I see things, I talk about 'em. And it's cool. I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time."
"Life is short is what some niggaz said; not if you measure life - by how one lives and what he did."
"Speak what I want, I don't care what y'all feel. 'Cause I'm my own master, my Pop told me be your own boss. Keep integrity at every cost."
"In the past I had to deal with issues that hit me as a younger man. As a man who wasn't married who didn't really have the experience that I have now. Today I'm a different guy."
"I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up."
"True in the game, as long as blood is blue in my veins I pour my Heineken brew to my deceased crew on memory lane"
"The reason I want to be alone, is I'm tired of all the things that went wrong that would've went right if I had did 'em on my own"
"I can't control what people think. They know who I am."
"Whats up with your motto? Will you lead? Will you follow?"
"All I need is one mic . All I need is one life, one try, one breath, I'm one man."
"Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career."
"Anything that's really good, everybody wants to put their hands on. The multimedia puts their hands on it and everything happens that makes it global. Then people forget the roots of it and people forget why they care about it, and then it gets torn apart and turns so commercial that you don't even know what the essence of this art form is even about."
"Always observe, watch, and talk to older people."
"I'm never gonna die, never heard of death, energy can never be destroyed only the flesh, so when you try to murder me with bullets to the head this is why you can't kill me niggaz, I'm already dead."
"My duration's infinite, money-wise or physiology."
"If the truth is told, the youth can grow."
"It hurts to see anybody in pain, if you've got any kind of heart."
"I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing."
"No Ideas original - there is nothing new under the sun."