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The minute you get too big to mop a floor or wipe a counter, that's the exact minute you have life f**ked up.
Me and success are two things you don't wanna find yo ass between. Back against the wall like plasma screens.
Cause I was stayin home when they was having fun. So please don't be surprised when they announce that I won.
I'm living life right now, maine and this what Imma do til it's over, til it's over.. but it's far from over.
It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.
In Atlanta, there's no limitation to where you can take your music. You can be as creative as you want to be.
Everybody wanna be a super dad and the best dad ever, but sometimes, I'm just realizing that I'm not perfect.
We’ve been proud of the fact that we were known for our music first and it has been what makes us work harder
Stony Skunk, when they were with our company, had a song which I personally like called 'Red Light District.'
Interestingly, when I look at pictures of me when I was five or six years old, I think I look pretty stylish.
My whole career has been from scratch, so I never took it for granted that people care and support what I do.
It was the beauty that caught me and held my soul hostage... Remember those days? Had you smellin' my boxers.
We need to make a change while there’s still time, it is hard, and at times I struggle trying to reveal mine.
Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out.
Working your whole life wondering where the day went, the subway stays packed like a multicultural slaveship.
I get my by any means on, whenever there's a drought get your umbrellas out because that's when I brainstorm.
I think it's very important for hip-hop, when an artist reaches a certain level, to ascend to executive work.
The only biography I read was about Al Bell, of Stax Records. I wanted to follow in the footsteps of Al Bell.
I don't pay attention to sales because it's not about that for me. It's about the music. Music is all I have.
The idea of New Zealanders sounding like Americans is not it. You got to rhyme in your language, your accent.
For KRS-One, I have a specific sound - sparse drums and bass. I try to steer away from elaborate productions.
If the radio ever played my music, I would sue them. And they know it, which is why they don't play my music.
Honestly, what Jesus was about was laying his life down for the marginalized who didn't have it all together.
Four tears in my face and you ain't never heard me cry/ I'm richer than all y'all, I got a bank full of pride
A blessing in disguise, is right before our eyes. But since it is in disguise, we don't know that it's there.
Please don't bite baby, I got some bomb ass pussy from a white lady... She let me hide my weed in her titties
I love to reinvent myself, and that's because I am a very free person. I do what I feel, and I love who I am.
I'm older, and I wish that a lot of things that I did in my life, I didn't do, but I'm able to talk about it.
You can't really just make someone into something and it works all the time; that person has to be a natural.
I see the invisible spirits, where demons still find it livable. I need a hug to hold my soul inside my body.
Obama came in and gave $700 billion to the bankers off the top as opposed to giving $700 billion to the poor.
You can make something out of nothing. I proved that with my career, making it out of the city that I'm from.
I think what's wrong with the fashion world, particularly men's fashion, is the lack of creativity behind it.
Rolling down the windows, yeah I got an air conditiona, but I got a sound I want the whole world to listenta.
I don't think you could pull one Bob Marley song that didn't have quotes from the Torah or the Old Testament.
I sip the Dom P watching Gandhi til I'm charged - writing in my book of rhymes, all the words past the margin
To me, it's an honour to be accepted as a hip hop artist, it gives me a lot of opportunity to express myself.
To adjust your philosophy and creativity in fashion to the time you're living in is the most important thing.
I'm just here to open up doors for all these other cats out here that are trying to do the same thing really.
I'm confident being at Universal, which is a great home for me, 'cause they understand what I'm trying to do.
Subconsciously, Islam took over me so it was like eighty or ninety percent of the fabric of the person I was.
Playing the sax and then enjoying jazz music, man - it's like I learned how to find words inside of the beat.
I'm definitely one of them artists that loves putting the track on and having fun with it, but in my own way.
We runnin around in thousand-dollar clown suits, Better get some boots when Lucifer turn your city to Beirut.
I make sure I always surround myself with good, down to earth, fun, real people, who always keep me grounded.
Even when I lose faith in myself there is something in me that speaks through and says I am not finished yet.
A true artist does not depend on radio for success. A true fan does not let radio determine what they support
Who you? Your name smaller than fine grains in couscous It's the highest calibre, your calibre is deuce deuce
I listen to a lot of 80s stuff, like Owner of a Lonely Heart, by the group Yes. And Mr. Misters Broken Wings.
At the end of the day, you sign a record deal and you understand where it could go if you had the right song.