"To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets."
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"My skin is an art gallery right, with paintings and crucifixes hoping to save me from all the dangers in the music business"
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"I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was."
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"You ni**az get me sick, wannabe soundin like you know my arithmetic... but we don't sound alike"
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"Vocabulary spills I'm ill."
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"I want you to know who I am: what the streets taste like, feel like, smell like. What the cops talk like, walk like, think like. What crackheads do - I wanted you to smell it, feel it. It was important to me that I told the story that way because I thought that it wouldn't be told if I didn't tell it."
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"I don't want to disappoint - that's a nightmare to me."
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"Freedom or jail clips inserted, a baby's being born/ Same time a man is murdered, the beginning and end."
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"People give me a better understanding on things that I said, or a different way to look at it."
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"All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help."
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"Hip-hop ain't died because of the South, that's retarded. When I named the album originally, I thought I bit off more than I could chew but you'd be an idiot to think I'm talking about how the South killed hip-hop or how New York isn't where it should be or where it once was. It was like, "Damn, I need to explain this?" But I thought, "Nah, the proof is right there. We should know what it is." I expect the hip-hop audience to be avant garde. I want them to be where I'm at or beyond where I'm at."
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"I'm a firm believer that we all meet up in eternity Just hope the big man show me some courtesy."
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"I think a lot of us know when it's our time. No matter what profession you're in, you get a feeling. If you worked on it long enough, you know when it's ready."
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"I wanted to say what wasn't being said. I wanted to give people a real story. I wanted people to know people like me exist in the world."
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"Hip-hop artist, especially the older ones, are the ones who new hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new."
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"I'm not talking about Russia in my music. I've never been to Russia. I'm not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China. I'm talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life."
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"Just do as much as you can."
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"At one point, the old school club retires and you're next up to bat, but if you stop before your time, you will see someone else live your dream."
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"I don't have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission."
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"Calling Michelle 'Obama Barack's baby mama?' Tell me, is that acceptable? But the Obamas aren't the only targets. Fox's pattern of race-baiting and fear-mongering regularly focuses on black leaders, black institutions and ordinary black people."
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