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" I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing. "

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" Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through. "

" There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn't know how many people would respect it. "

" Let's not forget, art can sell. You ain't gotta front all the time on your records. "

" DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing... At the end of the day, it's up to us to control and to own hip-hop. DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us. "

" 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. "

" With age comes common sense and wisdom. "

" The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling. "

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

" 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 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. "

" Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career. "

" Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy. "

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

" You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it's like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it. You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm. "

" I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means - I love art. "

" Your look reflects what's happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you. "

" I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know? "

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

" I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat. I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that's been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me - ever. "

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

" My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely. "