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" If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family's life but change your ghetto's life, make your ghetto a good neighbourhood, learn science; try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. "

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" Hip-hop is limiting itself and that also goes for editorially. Magazines and websites are the gatekeepers of what people think hip-hop is, but they actually end up limiting what hip-hop can be. "

" Hip-hop was fast, originally. It was always fast music. "

" Here's the problem: Profiteers haunt America, and for everything we try to control, someone's going to profit from it, more than you control it. "

" Romantic love is painful. "

" Releasing an album on a major label is like sending a package through Fed Ex. You know that it'll get there, and you know that it'll get there on time. "

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" It's a rare combination to have someone who can write songs and sing well. "

" I don't want to hope anymore. I don't think we should hope anymore. We hoped enough. Now we have to do. We all have to do now. "

" I'm like a mama's boy and stuff. "

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" You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology. "

" I don't follow waves or trends or emotions. "

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" I have a pro tools rig that I carry in my backpack. "

" Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting. "

" I don't want to preach to people. "

" If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, you're not going to want to keep it to yourself. You're going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can, so everybody can benefit from it. "

" I don't know what silence sounds like anymore. "

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" I just like seeing kids inspired. "

" I'd like to see Apple and Dell factories be brought to the inner cities; in every project in America, there's some factory there, and it's abandoned, and I'd like to see those factories open and bring jobs to America. "

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" Why shouldn't a child look to want to be a political figure, to change our nation, to lead us the right directions? "

" Hip-hop culture is probably one of the most powerful things to come out of America in a long time - everything from the music to the art to the dance to the language. "

" Crime and violence are the easiest emotions to reenact. "

" Everything affects hip-hop. The question is, how does it affect the money that corporations are going to invest to put out different kinds of hip-hop? "

" If you listen to the songs I write, they are the most ADHD songs ever. They have five hooks in one and it all happens in three minutes. "

" My mom's never been married. I've never even seen my mom kiss a dude. "

" Coming out with records when you're in a big, successful group that plays stadiums, that's scary to come out by yourself. "

" If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology? "

" I've got all this stuff in my head at the same time as I'm doing stuff and I don't know how to stop or slow down. "

" Philanthropy is my job. "

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" My attention span is very short. "

" I can procrastinate a little bit. "

" I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with. "