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" No days off. I'm a workaholic. "
Wale
Workaholic
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" When we were in D.C. my daddy used to cut his hair with a bowl. Crucial. If you're African, Haitan, Jamaican or even more poor than the people in the project, you'll know about that. "
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" I put my foot in my mouth sometimes. I'll be the first to admit it. "
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" 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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" 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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" I feel like I'm one of the more creative artists in the game. I think I'm going to be here for a while. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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Hate
Politics
" 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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" 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. "
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" Making love is, simply put, poetry in motion. "
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" I go out, but not too much. When I'm on tour, I just write a lot of music and sleep. "
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" I'd love a super human memory. My memory has never been good. "
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" My dream tour would be like, me, Cole, Drake, Sean, Meek. I think that would be dope, something like that; big venues. "
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" I've always been a Nike person. "
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" 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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" 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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" My job is to inspire the people, to be on top of my game and push my culture forward. "
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" 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
" Everything's pretty consistent in the industry, you know. There's a couple of naysayers, whatever, people who don't agree. But for the most part a lot of people believe in the new class of MC's that coming to the game. "
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" My life is better than a lot of people I know. I'm definitely happy about that. "
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" I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me. "
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" I don't want to be one of those guys that you see who made $4 million, invested $3.5 million, and now you work at Wendy's. "
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" I take a lot of pride in my live show and put more energy there than I do in the studio. "
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" Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" As much as I don't want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they're not pleased with what I'm presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music. "
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