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" All the rappers my age are getting Audemars and Rolexes. I want to find my own thing. That's why I travel the world - for me, that's my B-side, why we go places. I have a Hublot on from time to time but I want a home base watch - something that's elegant but has got a little pizzazz to it. "
Travel
World
Age
" A lot of my female fans discovered me through the passion I have for bettering myself. Not to say the dudes don't, but my female fan-base is based off women who want to do better. "
Say
Myself
Passion
" As much as I don't want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they're not pleased with what I'm presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music. "
Music
Pride
Feelings
" Basically, the Internet is just the way now. It's the end-all, be-all of self-promotion. It's not like you got to burn CDs and pass them out or sell them. The Internet is a tool that reaches billions and billions of people. It's like a no-brainer to tie it in with self-promotion, or even label promotion. "
Internet
People
Promotion
" D.C.'s a tough place to get love unless you're from D.C. It's like everybody hates you here. The only black person that everyone can agree on is Obama. "
Place
Person
Love
" Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions. "
Get
Emotions
You
" Everything's pretty consistent in the industry, you know. There's a couple of naysayers, whatever, people who don't agree. But for the most part a lot of people believe in the new class of MC's that coming to the game. "
Know
Game
Believe
" Hip-hop is all about impact, baby. You can sell records, you can be two-times platinum, you can be gold... but if you lame, you lame, man. We try to provide the exact opposite of that. It's style, individuality, confidence. We exude that. "
Gold
Style
You
" However, people need to understand that it ain't that deep to try and convince people of what your persona is. You are who you are, and what you are will show in time. What you aren't can be hidden, but eventually it will come to light. Long story short: rappers should never take themselves too seriously. "
People
Deep
Time
" I can take an opinion, but I don't like when you try and spew hate and contaminate the way other people think. I feel like I'm one of the people that's always made music for the common man. That's why I don't really live my life the way I could. I don't stunt as much as I could stunt, 'cause that's not who my music is for. "
Music
People
Life
" I come from a place, with all due respect, who's never had a music star in hip-hop. So the odds is already against me. "
Respect
Hip-Hop
Me
" I dated all these girls and ended up not liking them and thought to myself, 'What was it that all of them had in common?' They had too much time on their hands. Even though they were pretty, they lacked something. A woman could be less attractive but with ambition and drive, that's the most beautiful thing. "
Time
Myself
Woman
" I dated a lot, but I never really had anyone who was worthy of an anniversary. And most girlfriends never made it to a year, anyway. "
Worthy
Year
Anniversary
" I'd love a super human memory. My memory has never been good. "
Memory
Been
Good
" I don't be remembering women that I've met before. I don't remember people as a whole. It's crazy. A lot of times, people get in their feelings, like, 'You don't remember me?!' "
Women
People
Me
" I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself. "
Talking
Sound
Pretentious
" I don't want to be one of those guys that you see who made $4 million, invested $3.5 million, and now you work at Wendy's. "
Want
Now
Work
" I feel like I'm one of the more creative artists in the game. I think I'm going to be here for a while. "
Creative
Think
More
" If someone doesn't have a reason to not like you in America, they talk politics or religion. Then they get to hate you and we get to be enemies. "
America
Hate
Politics
" I go out, but not too much. When I'm on tour, I just write a lot of music and sleep. "
Go
Write
Just
" I hope everybody thinks they've got the best album. I wouldn't have put mine out if I didn't think it was the best. "
Best
Hope
Mine
" I like David Beckham just because of his lifestyle. He don't ever need to score another goal again. How many times has he been on the cover of GQ? "
Lifestyle
Goal
Need
" I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me. "
Me
Man
Feel
" I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times. "
Person
Fault
Times
" I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'? "
Love
Like
Know
" I'm at like 325 pairs right now, give or take. But I've given away about 200 pairs of sneakers. I'm not as big of a collector as I used to be, because I think the game just got weird. Everybody likes to collect now, so it's kind of corny. But I got the essentials. "
Think
Sneakers
Now
" I'm fortunate enough to be living my dreams and a lot of other peoples' dreams. "
Fortunate
Enough
Dreams
" I'm insecure about things. I'm not afraid to say it, though. Even when my publicist is like, 'Go on the red carpet,' I don't wanna go. "
Like
Red
Red Carpet
" I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models. "
Famous
Look
Me
" I'm never satisfied, man. I'm Virgo. We overanalyze and we're never satisfied. So I'm gonna keep going 'til the wheels fall off. "
Keep Going
Satisfied
Never
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