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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up. "

" With age comes common sense and wisdom. "

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

" 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. "

" I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it. "

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

" My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely. "

" Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle. "

" Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it. "

" The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York. "

" I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better. "

" 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. "

" I'm not talking about Russia in my music. I've never been to Russia. I'm not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China. I'm talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life. "

" All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help. "

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

" 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. "