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" I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was. "

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" Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery. "

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

" I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning. "

" Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot. "

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

" I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it. "

" I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They're here to criticize all of us. That's just how it is. We as MC's criticize each other. That's the nature of hip-hop. "

" To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets. "

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

" 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? "

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

" Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight. "

" The flaws, the mistakes I make - that's the real me. "

" I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did. "

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

" With age comes common sense and wisdom. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist. "

" I don't have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission. "

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

" It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there. "

" I can't control what people think. They know who I am. "

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

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