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"Me and hip-hop have a relationship that has nothing to do with no other rapper, no matter where you from or nothing. Every n*gga got his own personal relationship with hip-hop and this is mine."
"I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat. I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that's been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it."
"I think it's harder to make a classic now, not because of what people say, but because artists now are so concerned with what people say."
"There needs to be structures in place to do something about misrepresentation about hip hop. When awards are given out and the media talk about hip hop, they're confused because they haven't done their homework on it so you have a case where there's an award for the most pop song in the world and it's called 'hip hop'."
"Sunlight and seeing something that was a thought become a thing and materialize - that makes me come alive."
"We're all Africans, everyone - black, white, yellow."
"I'm inspired by people like Nelson Mandela. Can you imagine - you know how racist America was back then - imagine how racism was in South Africa when he had to stand up and say what he had to say. That's bravery beyond comprehension."
"Somehow the rap game remind me of the crack game"
"My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely."
"I'm a reader, so when I go to bookstores I need (stuff) that's going to help me. There a big emptiness there and I want to help fill that through song."
"I'm proud to be an American, no matter what. But Amercian culture is stale, you know wha I'm saying ? We keep regurgitating the same sh*t. And it ain't exciting. I seen it from when I was a kid watching the whole sh*t. The sh*t was exciting to me."
"I want each album to say something different and be accepted better than the last one but I don't have any point to outdo any particular album of mine."
"What you call a infinite brawl, eternal souls clashin War gets deep, some beef is everlastin"
"You can't count a man out because one record went different direction. You gotta count the things that scored, not the misses."
"I sip the Dom P watching Gandhi til I'm charged - writing in my book of rhymes, all the words past the margin"
"If I made an album just to sell you a story about how I'm the man, it really doesn't show any human side to me. It's good to talk about what's real and what's relevant."
"My weapon of choice is my voice."
"If you really believe in yourself and your music that much, you're gonna do your thing, regardless what people say."
"I think hip hop allows us to talk about everything, and Africa is what I choose to talk about now. If people are not talking about Africa, that's them, that's cool, there's nothing wrong with that. But this is who I am, this is what I have to say, this is what I have to offer."
"Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper - it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do."