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" Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you're happy... Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest. "

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" We're all Africans, everyone - black, white, yellow. "

" To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets. "

" N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New. "

" Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York. "

" 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. "

" I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out. "

" I've been called everything. Gangsta rap. I've been called conscious rap. You know, everything. Whoever feels like calling it whatever they want to call it, that's on them. "

" When you have a daughter, you want to protect her from the things that I've seen out there, you know, the things that's out there that ain't good for her. It's a crazy world we live in. "

" Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words. "

" GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she's fearless and she's ahead of the game. She's ahead of the entire game, and I admire that. "

" 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. "

" I don't have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission. "

" No one's promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records. "

" I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up. "

" Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it. "

" No matter who you are, black, white, green, there's going to be things in your way, you know what I mean? "

" 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. "

" I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did. "

" 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. "

" The things that I have said when I was young and curious about whatever the subject matter was, I respect those - those are growing pains. Even if you make mistakes, I go back to those things, my not-so-great moments because those are my truest moments; those are my human moments. I'm not even mad at the things I said that were a little dicey. "

" 'Life Is Good' represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life. "

" I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was. "

" I can't control what people think. They know who I am. "

" I see N.Y. hip-hop like I see N.Y. streets. N.Y. streets are grimy; it's a grind. N.Y. rappers are hustlers - whatever sound is in, we can adapt to that; there's nothing wrong with that. "

" I'll always love rap, no matter what's going on. "

" When I say 'hip-hop is dead,' basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead. "

" My record company had to beg me to stop filmin' music videos in the projects. No matter what the song was about, I had 'em out there. "

" 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. "

" I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future. I'm a big fan of Common. I'm a big fan of Scarface; I'm a big fan of so many people, from Jeezy to... well, there are a lot of people's music that I respect. I don't know who I will collaborate with, but there's a great chance of something happening. "

" Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them. "