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" I hope everybody thinks they've got the best album. I wouldn't have put mine out if I didn't think it was the best. "
Wale
Best
Hope
Mine
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" I can take an opinion, but I don't like when you try and spew hate and contaminate the way other people think. I feel like I'm one of the people that's always made music for the common man. That's why I don't really live my life the way I could. I don't stunt as much as I could stunt, 'cause that's not who my music is for. "
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Life
" You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,' you're going to find a way to hum along. Guilty pleasures? It don't matter. Sue me - I like the song. To dance to it is another matter. "
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Me
" Hip-hop is all about impact, baby. You can sell records, you can be two-times platinum, you can be gold... but if you lame, you lame, man. We try to provide the exact opposite of that. It's style, individuality, confidence. We exude that. "
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Style
You
" Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism. "
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Great
Rapper
Lives
" My life is better than a lot of people I know. I'm definitely happy about that. "
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My Life
Happy
Life
" I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for. "
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Speak
Mind
Loved
" I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'? "
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Love
Like
Know
" However, people need to understand that it ain't that deep to try and convince people of what your persona is. You are who you are, and what you are will show in time. What you aren't can be hidden, but eventually it will come to light. Long story short: rappers should never take themselves too seriously. "
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People
Deep
Time
" I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models. "
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Famous
Look
Me
" If someone doesn't have a reason to not like you in America, they talk politics or religion. Then they get to hate you and we get to be enemies. "
Wale
America
Hate
Politics
" D.C.'s a tough place to get love unless you're from D.C. It's like everybody hates you here. The only black person that everyone can agree on is Obama. "
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Place
Person
Love
" Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions. "
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Get
Emotions
You
" I come from a place, with all due respect, who's never had a music star in hip-hop. So the odds is already against me. "
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Respect
Hip-Hop
Me
" I've seen all types of women. Celebrity girls I've dated and regular 9 to 5 girls. I've had shows where married women have tried to follow me to my hotel. My perception of women isn't very ignorant because I've seen a lot. "
Wale
Me
Women
Perception
" I used to have a real passion for writing, but not so much anymore - probably because I do too much of it. "
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Too Much
Real
Passion
" I'm at like 325 pairs right now, give or take. But I've given away about 200 pairs of sneakers. I'm not as big of a collector as I used to be, because I think the game just got weird. Everybody likes to collect now, so it's kind of corny. But I got the essentials. "
Wale
Think
Sneakers
Now
" The first thing that's important is to really have people believe in you. If you have that, you can do anything. "
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People
First
You
" I like David Beckham just because of his lifestyle. He don't ever need to score another goal again. How many times has he been on the cover of GQ? "
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Lifestyle
Goal
Need
" Mix-tapes are something that have been going on for a while. They've been pretty important to hip-hop for the past 10 years. It's the way we advertise our music to the public for free. "
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Hip-Hop
Music
Important
" You don't necessarily pick the singles that you want when you're making a record, but for the most part it's the same process. You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make. "
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Want
Process
Same
" No days off. I'm a workaholic. "
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Workaholic
Days
Off
" A lot of my female fans discovered me through the passion I have for bettering myself. Not to say the dudes don't, but my female fan-base is based off women who want to do better. "
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Say
Myself
Passion
" There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues. "
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You
President
Way
" I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times. "
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Person
Fault
Times
" All the rappers my age are getting Audemars and Rolexes. I want to find my own thing. That's why I travel the world - for me, that's my B-side, why we go places. I have a Hublot on from time to time but I want a home base watch - something that's elegant but has got a little pizzazz to it. "
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Travel
World
Age
" I'm never satisfied, man. I'm Virgo. We overanalyze and we're never satisfied. So I'm gonna keep going 'til the wheels fall off. "
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Keep Going
Satisfied
Never
" The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art. "
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You
Rapper
Look
" I'm fortunate enough to be living my dreams and a lot of other peoples' dreams. "
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Fortunate
Enough
Dreams
" Not to sound bad, but some girls are dumb. It's because they spend so much of their life trying to have the right look. On the other hand, some girls are just really smart. There are girls you can have conversations with that are healthy conversations. You can argue real life issues and solve problems together. That is what makes a woman sexy. "
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Look
Woman
Together
" I used to switch up my cologne every two to three months, get a new wave - Dolce, Versace, Burberry. But Black Orchid, that joint stayed. That's the smell of beauty that stays on you... and girls love Tom Ford. "
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Black
Beauty
Love