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" Hip-hop is limiting itself and that also goes for editorially. Magazines and websites are the gatekeepers of what people think hip-hop is, but they actually end up limiting what hip-hop can be. "

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" I feel my personality is richer than my bank account. So if I meet a girl, maybe first she just likes me because I'm rich. But then she's gonna get to know me and say, 'Screw the money.' "

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" I don't despise people. "

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" I don't need anyone to validate me. "

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" I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with. "

" We need creative people working with broadcasters, making smart content to inspire people to be geniuses. "

" I don't have political agendas. I have social agendas. "

" Kids today aren't listening to music audio-only. They're picking up a CD and looking at the lyric sheet and wondering why the pictures aren't moving around. Who wants to do that? It's like Bam Bam Flintstone hanging with the dinosaurs vs. Elroy Jetson who's flying around space. If I'm a kid, I wanna be kicking it with Elroy. "

" If I didn't mould my reality then I'd still be in the ghetto where people like me are supposed to stay. You have to dream your way out of the nightmare. "

" America has to be not just an idea but a living, breathing thing. "

" Coming out with records when you're in a big, successful group that plays stadiums, that's scary to come out by yourself. "

" Releasing an album on a major label is like sending a package through Fed Ex. You know that it'll get there, and you know that it'll get there on time. "

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" Every single song that I've listened to is in my memory forever. "

" If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, you're not going to want to keep it to yourself. You're going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can, so everybody can benefit from it. "

" Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting. "

" Electro is today's disco - making electronic music not for the sake of selling it but for sharing it and touring around the world D.J.-ing. "

" Crime and violence are the easiest emotions to reenact. "

" Black Eyed Peas is a chameleon group. "

" Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society. "

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" I remember when I was 19, it was pretty tough. "

" I read Twitter all the time, even though I rarely tweet. "

" I was born and raised in the ghetto, on welfare, two minutes from homeless. "

" There's an entry point to any relationship. "

" If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family's life but change your ghetto's life, make your ghetto a good neighbourhood, learn science; try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. "

" I'm like a mama's boy and stuff. "

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" There's no chivalry in culture any more. Sometimes you meet someone who everyone says is polite and you're like, 'Wow,' but then it's like, 'Hang on, isn't everyone supposed to be polite?' "

" I don't want to be on stage when I'm 57, talking about... 'Let's Get It Started.' "

" Now that Obama's president, it changes inner-city youths. They can now not just dream to be Lil Waynes and 50 Cents, but they can now dream to be Obamas. "