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I try to be cool with everybody, but sometimes, everybody just has different personalities, motives, and different characters.
I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?
If countries were people, England and France would be old men. Italy would be dead. Compared with them, America is in its 20s.
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.
Anyone can relate to struggle, whether you're European or Asian. Anyone can relate to having to get up and go to work and eat.
You gotta understand, you can't look at no pictures and look at the media and the critics and what they saying on no Internet.
I've started my own record label - Jeepney Music - and I want to put out my own stuff and also stuff by other Filipino artists.
People will reach out because they know I'm trying to put my best forward when it comes to subject matter and creation of song.
They have horror stuff in the Bible. Like if you were to read Deuteronomy 28, that talks about the blessings and curses of God.
Well I invented horrorcore rap actually. When I did 'Chuckie' and when I did 'Mind of a Lunatic' - there was nothing like that.
The powers that be are trying to meld, shape, and corral the culture of hip-hop into another speaking voice for the government.
I write best about two things, which is evident from the cover of So Far Gone: the constant quest to understand love and money.
I hate working with artists who don't have something to say or when they have something that sounds cool but isn't really them.
I'm not boasting or nothing but a lot of people have a lot of love for me. I'm a legend, but I stay H and H, hungry and humble.
We are Korean, so obviously they call our music K-pop. But we never thought of our music as K-pop. Our music is just our music.
In my dorm room, I was a hermit making music, I've always had a sense of urgency that I don't have forever to make this happen.
I don't come to Toronto often, so when I'm there it's always special and rare which I think makes it very exciting for my fans.
Chance The Rapper makes some of the greatest music out, and he build his brand up organically, and the fans have reacted to it.
I fell in love with hip-hop at an early age as a culture, as a sound, both from the perspective of a fan and a creative outlet.
Super-cali-fragalistic-expiali-docious, Docious-ali-expi-fragalistic-cali-super. Cancun...catch me in the room, eatin' grouper.
Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
Art has to be, you know, trade itself, conform to the old strict guidelines set forth by how it was going to act in the future.
Like, my whole life I've been right here in this zip code, 90059. Regardless of wherever I go I always end up in the same spot.
I listen to everything - from Sarah McLachlan and Alanis Morissette all the way down to rap like Scarface, UGK and Lauryn Hill.
My life has changed for the better. It's just amazing. I have to catch myself sometimes. It's like a dream. It's a great thing.
Raise your hands in the air, pump your fists, and solemnly swear to rock the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
Illiteracy causes violence. If you don't have enough words in your vocabulary, you can't even seek your way out of a situation.
A wolf is no less a wolf because he's dressed in sheepskin and the devil is no less the devil because he's dressed as an angel.
I know how important voting and elections are. But everybody know that life is going to be life regardless of who is president.
I just chill. I don't stand outside too much. I do what I gotta do and chill, man, know what I'm saying? That's all. It's cool.
Lil Wayne is talented. He seems to be the dominant figure in this particular era of hip-hop. So you know, he's doing his thing.
We weren't raised Muslim - we were born Muslim. I didn't go to a Muslim school, but it was just the theme song. It was ambient.
When the universe throws something your way, or things happen, I'm one of those people that goes with it, and I don't fight it.
'The more expensive the better' is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes it better.
I think music gives so much inspiration. I listen to all kinds of music: pop, hip-hop, everything. I also love classical music.
It's all about music, because music is basically what's... been my avenue out of maybe being involved in things I shouldn't be.
I just love his creativity; that's what I'm talking about as far as being unique and creative and different. Kanye is doing it.
I demand the best. Sleep is forbidden. If you work for me, you have to roll how I roll. Im not really human. Im like a machine.
It's not just a struggle for blacks to be accepted by whites, but the other way around as well. A lot of people don't see that.
You gotta let the fans shine their glory the way they want. It's like I have a million bosses and my job is to make them happy.
We gotta let hip-hop grow. We gotta let it go through its different phases throughout the different places that's accepting it.
Swisha House presented this vibe of candy-painted cars and big chains. I always had a fascination for flashy, expensive things.
I was so obsessed with 2Pac. He was one of the first rappers I heard. "Dear Mama" was one of the first tracks I ever memorized.
I really don't do anything to break myself. As far as the damages to my body, I'm not a drinker. I let the gin and juice alone.
Definitely giving it my heart and soul from my life as I see it. That whole album [My Brother] is like that, that's how I feel.
Flows that go against the grain with a story so compellin' I should mind The People's Court, snatch the mic from Doug Llewellyn
I own over ninety-five different hats and, over the years, have lost or given away 120 hats. You gain to lose you lose to gain.
When you were born the world was smiling, and you cry, because living a life so that you are dying smiled, cried and the world.
Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.
My mom raised me to be clean, so it's in my nature. I have two little girls, and I'm married, but we've got a nanny and a maid.