"I don't meditate. Silence is golden though."
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"Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up."
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"Whose world is this? The world is yours."
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"I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means - I love art."
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"Don't ever give up on yourself. Keep pushing because the change of guards is what life's all about."
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"I've gone through too much, from beefs to divorce to my mom passing which I always expressed in my music, so there's not album that sticks out as more important than the other to me."
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"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."
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"Hip-hop is such an amazing thing that kids still want to do it. They're not saying, "Ugh, that's the old people's music." No, they're younger than they've ever been that want to get into hip-hop music."
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"You a slave to a page in my rhyme book."
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"That buck that bought a bottle could have struck the lotto"
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"I fell in love with words and I think that made my mom smile. I think that was cool for her."
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"Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy."
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"Let the music diffuse all the tension."
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"I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it."
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"And the stuff that I write, is even tougher than dykes."
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"I got the opportunity to meet people all over the world. Brilliant women, tall women, short women, slim women, thick women, you name it. But, I don't meet them. I have the opportunities to and it's a little bit - I'm a little shy, so I don't meet them and I don't know who's right for me."
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"I'm out for presidents to represent me (Say what?) I'm out for dead presidents to represent me."
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"Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me."
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"All I need is one mic One beat, one stage One ni%$a frontin' my face on the front page Only if I had one gun, one girl and one crib One god to show me how to do things his son did."
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"Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode."
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