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" I hate filming in the studio. "
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" There's the way modern music is produced, which is, 'Here's a piece of music, and I'm the producer, so pay me and make sure my credit is right and get me my splits.' But I'm trying to go backward. Now, it's more like 'What's the texture? What's the over-arching story?' There are more things to pay attention to than 'Is this the right snare?' "
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Me
Trying
Attention
" I come from an era where you just build something. Me and Common built what we built from Chicago from scratch. "
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Build
Common
Just
" 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
" 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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More
Ambassador
Try
" If you look before the '90s, you might not find many - if any - albums with multiple producers. It just didn't exist in the history of music. That would have been like Michael Jackson telling Quincy Jones, 'Look man, I know we did well on 'Off The Wall,' but I'm hot now, and I need to see some other producers for 'Thriller.'' "
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Know
History
You
" 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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My Life
Pride
Honor
" 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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Dude
Cool
Hip-Hop
" There's so many things that Kanye does that I agree with and disagree with at times. I just say, 'You're in a different place, and what you're doing is experimental. Nobody's been there in hip-hop.' "
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Doing
Hip-Hop
Nobody
" 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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Radio
Reach
You
" When you really make things that really challenge the status quo or challenge issues, and you do it artistically, and you do it with no fear, people are listening. "
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People
You
Listening
" 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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People
Choice
Rapper
" 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 don't care whether something makes one dollar or a trillion because guess what? I don't know many happy rich people. And I know a lot of rich people. "
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Rich
Care
Dollar
" 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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Think
Service
Help
" 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'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
" 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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Music
Money
Great
" 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
Music
" I have a Chicago personality, which means that just because I'm friends with one person, I don't assume I'm friends with his friends. "
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Person
Personality
Friends
" Common and I have a long history of making great music together. "
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Music
History
Great
" After 'Resurrection,' I was getting calls for people to do work with me, and I was turning it down. "
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People
Down
Resurrection
" I've got a philosophy I call 'no dancing in the end zone.' You score, get back, and run another play. "
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Dancing
Run
Philosophy
" You make some good music, people are gonna find you. "
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People
Music
Some
" Most of the greatest albums in the history of music are one producer. It's just a fact. Or one collective. "
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Music
History
Greatest
" A lot of my favorite artists didn't sell much out the gate. I didn't with Common at first. Neither did first albums from Outkast, Nas, or Jay Z. It doesn't scare me. "
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Gate
Me
Sell
" 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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Stand
Think
Work
" 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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Creative
You
Support
" When I do music, I have a hard time experiencing it like everyone else, because there's so much thought that goes into it. You can sometimes fool yourself into thinking it's better than what it is, which stops me from being creative on the next thing I do. "
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Music
Thinking
Yourself
" Hit records create slang, and if you create slang, you get into a broader conversation level. "
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Conversation
Create
" I believe that when you really make the best music you can make from your heart, it will transcend all of those stereotypes, color issues, everything, because music is really made for human beings. "
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Music
Heart
Color