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" 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. "
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You
Discovery
Good
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" When I say 'hip-hop is dead,' basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead. "
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" Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me. "
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Time
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" I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can't ask for more than that. "
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World
Achievement
" 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. "
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Live
Daughter
" 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? "
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Perfect
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" To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets. "
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Myself
Version
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" I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me. "
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" 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. "
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Adapt
Hip-Hop
Nothing
" We're all Africans, everyone - black, white, yellow. "
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Everyone
Black
White
" 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. "
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Great
People
Respect
" No matter who you are, black, white, green, there's going to be things in your way, you know what I mean? "
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White
Black
Green
" 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. "
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Past
Words
Week
" 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. "
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Know
Want
Everything
" 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. "
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Artist
Street
Never
" Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle. "
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Appreciate
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You
" The things that I have said when I was young and curious about whatever the subject matter was, I respect those - those are growing pains. Even if you make mistakes, I go back to those things, my not-so-great moments because those are my truest moments; those are my human moments. I'm not even mad at the things I said that were a little dicey. "
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Mistakes
Moments
Respect
" N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New. "
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Enough
Hip-Hop
New York
" Your look reflects what's happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you. "
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Look
Your
You
" Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode. "
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Attitude
Me
Dying
" I don't have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission. "
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Own
Time
Mission
" 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. "
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Me
Think
Morning
" 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. "
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Power
Responsibility
Day
" All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help. "
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Important
Mothers
Need
" 'Stillmatic' is the rebirth of 'Illmatic,' my first debut album to come out in 1994. 'Stillmatic' is me coming full circle in my career and with everything, and just bringing pure hip-hop back. "
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Career
Pure
Me
" The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling. "
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Street
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Me
" I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through. "
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Long Time
Long
Easy
" Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them. "
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Talk
Anybody
Dating
" I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up. "
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Enjoy Life
Now
Wake Up
" My record company had to beg me to stop filmin' music videos in the projects. No matter what the song was about, I had 'em out there. "
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Music
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" 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. "
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Expectations
You
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