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" Hit records create slang, and if you create slang, you get into a broader conversation level. "
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" Common and I have a long history of making great music together. "
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" If you want to make money, that's great, but if you make great music, you're going to make money anyway. Keep your eyes on making a great product. You don't even have to promote it. "
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" Part of my growth as a producer was not just about making beats but also helping in the process of inspiring the song and making the song the center. "
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" There's this concept in urban music and lifestyle that money is everything, and I'm just not with it. If it makes money, it doesn't make it good. If it's good, it's good. "
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" I take a lot of pride in helping people become great. I think that's an element of being a producer that people don't always take in: They want to be great for themselves, whereas I'd like to be recognized as having helped the most people get over the hump. "
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Want
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" My entire approach is built on the idea that things can be commercial and artistic. "
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" Honesty, vulnerability, pain - these are things that always supersede the trends of the day. "
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" Ghostface, when it comes to hip-hop, was one of my favorite rappers and definitely one of my favorites in the Wu-Tang. He's also a really cool dude. "
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" Sometimes I think albums are so ambitious, they don't stand as bodies of work because you try to achieve so much, and sometimes we need to do less. Say less. "
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Think
Work
" Wine gets better with time. So does art. "
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" After 'Resurrection,' I was getting calls for people to do work with me, and I was turning it down. "
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" I think that sometimes, as producers, we just service the artists who's really just the main front or person. You know, our roles are really just to help them get where they're supposed to go. "
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" As much as you act like everything is programmed or calculated or researched or numbers, spins, radio, and clubs, it's still human beings out here you can reach with music. "
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" When you do your art, and you may think people don't recognize it or appreciate it, you actually go and try to get better. "
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People
Appreciate
" I hate filming in the studio. "
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Studio
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Filming
" I'm not interested in anything besides making some good music, helping some artists, being an executive. I'm pretty happy with that. "
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Pretty
Good
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" Nas' longevity comes from him having strong lyrical value in his songs, him being more like a poet and improving over time. "
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Strong
Time
Value
" Don't ever judge anybody. You don't know who anybody is, period... You gotta humble yourself. Just because you are where you are, it doesn't mean you aren't talking to someone great. "
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Know
" Trophies or no trophies, we are all just striving to do some really good art and help people's lives with it. "
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Help
Good
Art
" I'm not here to put my music out on the Internet with no support and then say I got creative freedom. I've got creative freedom wherever I go: I don't create anything that I don't want to create. That's freedom. Since when does a company force you to make something that you don't want to make? If they do that, you leave. "
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You
Support
" I just want to work on music and make some new stars. I'm not interested in being a star. "
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New
Music
Star
" I was a rapper. The reason I stopped rapping was because I realized that people wanted guys like Puff Daddy. That's not what I do. I quit. That was it. I had to sacrifice for my choice. I said, 'Forget it. I'll be a producer.' Nobody was going to make me do anything. "
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" 'I Used To Love H.E.R.,' from a production standpoint, was a brainchild of the style I developed on 'Soul By The Pound.' "
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" I really like G-Herbo. "
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" Pillow talk is the strongest conversation on the planet. "
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" I've never been a mega-star. I'm more of a tastemaker of hip-hop. I try to be more of an ambassador for the era of hip-hop that I came in. "
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Ambassador
Try
" When people get to see me interact with the creative giants, they see the perspective and the respect. A lot of times, people don't have that respect, from a music perspective, with the music people. "
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Music
People
" I've won; I've lost. I'm at the point where I do what I believe in and, win or lose, believe in what I do. "
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Lost
Win Or Lose
Lose
" I am the guy that, if you catch me saying something, I don't do the, 'Don't tell anybody I said it.' If I said it, I said it. I'm gonna stand right here and say it again to whoever - the end. What's the trouble? Where's the problem? "
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Me
Problem
Saying
" I come from a very specific love of hip-hop. I'm saying hip-hop, not rap. That's what saved my life. I carry that badge with a lot of pride and honor, and I really enjoy trying to raise the perception and the bar of what we do. "
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