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" I don't despise people. "
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Despise
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" It's dangerous to be a child star, but it's dangerous to be a child in the ghetto, or to be a child at school being bullied. "
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" Philanthropy is the thing that I am really excited about, and having success means I can do more. "
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" I remember when I was 11, I told my mom, 'One day I'm going to buy you a house.' And she said, 'Boy, don't you be making promises you can't keep.' I was like: 'No, Ma, it's not a promise. I'm going to buy you a house one day.' "
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" We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code. "
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" I go out partying to figure out exactly who I'm making music for. You can't just guess. "
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" Why shouldn't a child look to want to be a political figure, to change our nation, to lead us the right directions? "
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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?' "
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" We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming, we don't control that. If politicians want a war we don't control that. Acts of terrorism, we can't control them. "
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" My mom's discipline worked out perfectly. I wouldn't change a thing. "
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" 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. "
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" When someone is denying what they are, then that's when things start to spiral down. "
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" What Autotune allows is for people like myself and Kanye West not to depend on the singer. Back in the Fifties, the songwriter was rendered invisible. Now the songwriter is there in the forefront. "
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" Every single song that I've listened to is in my memory forever. "
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" There's nothing wrong with white if it's all right. "
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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 have ADHD. I'll admit it. "
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" Everything affects hip-hop. The question is, how does it affect the money that corporations are going to invest to put out different kinds of hip-hop? "
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" Traveling in Europe made me understand that America has an island mentality: No one exists except us. There's a whole other world out there, but most Americans - all they know is America, the marketing plan. "
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" 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. "
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" I have a pro tools rig that I carry in my backpack. "
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" I'd like to see Apple and Dell factories be brought to the inner cities; in every project in America, there's some factory there, and it's abandoned, and I'd like to see those factories open and bring jobs to America. "
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" Hip-hop was fast, originally. It was always fast music. "
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" Hip-hop culture is probably one of the most powerful things to come out of America in a long time - everything from the music to the art to the dance to the language. "
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" If my mind's not trying to fix something or create something, I don't know what to do. It just throws me off. "
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" If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss. "
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