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

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

" I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing. "

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

" 'Life Is Good' represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop... We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We're warriors. Soldiers. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was. "

" Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper - it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do. "

" 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. "

" Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight. "

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

" I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They're here to criticize all of us. That's just how it is. We as MC's criticize each other. That's the nature of hip-hop. "

" I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did. "

" When I say 'hip-hop is dead,' basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead. "

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

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

" 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. "

" '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. "

" 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. "

" Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me - ever. "

" 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. "

" Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up. "