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I wanted to say what wasn't being said. I wanted to give people a real story. I wanted people to know people like me exist in the world.Collection: Real
Sunlight and seeing something that was a thought become a thing and materialize - that makes me come alive.Collection: Alive
Hip-hop is such an amazing thing that kids still want to do it. They're not saying, "Ugh, that's the old people's music." No, they're younger than they've ever been that want to get into hip-hop music.Collection: Kids
Vocabulary spills I'm ill.Collection: Vocabulary
You ni**az get me sick, wannabe soundin like you know my arithmetic... but we don't sound alikeCollection: Rap
I used to keep a dictionary and work with it and then I realized there are more words that exist in the English language than there are in this dictionary.Collection: Language
I'm proud to be an American, no matter what. But Amercian culture is stale, you know wha I'm saying ? We keep regurgitating the same sh*t. And it ain't exciting. I seen it from when I was a kid watching the whole sh*t. The sh*t was exciting to me.Collection: Kids
And the stuff that I write, is even tougher than dykes.Collection: Writing
You got a handful of great guys - Ne-Yo, R. Kelly, Usher. You have a handful of great female artists. But for the most part the music world's changing and change is good. You have to make adjustments if you want to survive in that world.Collection: Artist
Me and hip-hop have a relationship that has nothing to do with no other rapper, no matter where you from or nothing. Every n*gga got his own personal relationship with hip-hop and this is mine.Collection: Rapper
If the virgin Mary had an abortion, I'd still be carried in a chariot of stampeding horses.Collection: Horse
If I made an album just to sell you a story about how I'm the man, it really doesn't show any human side to me. It's good to talk about what's real and what's relevant.Collection: Real
I guess entertainment means blatantly lyin'Collection: Mean
I'm inspired by people like Nelson Mandela. Can you imagine - you know how racist America was back then - imagine how racism was in South Africa when he had to stand up and say what he had to say. That's bravery beyond comprehension.Collection: America
Props is a true thug's wife.Collection: Rap
I think hip hop allows us to talk about everything, and Africa is what I choose to talk about now. If people are not talking about Africa, that's them, that's cool, there's nothing wrong with that. But this is who I am, this is what I have to say, this is what I have to offer.Collection: Thinking
Realize, how many classics I gave you/Perhaps if you think back you'll realize that I made youCollection: Thinking
I want to hear the artist. I want to hear them give me something that I can relate to, other than the fact that everything's about bragging.Collection: Artist
I'm a reader, so when I go to bookstores I need (stuff) that's going to help me. There a big emptiness there and I want to help fill that through song.Collection: Song
I'm a storyteller and the Bible is a bunch of stories about life and things that took place here on planet earth. It's a great example to use and a great reason to be happy about being a storyteller because the lessons of the land are always in stories.Collection: Land
All I need is one mic . All I need is one life, one try, one breath, I'm one man.Collection: Men
I sip the Dom P watching Gandhi til I'm charged - writing in my book of rhymes, all the words past the marginCollection: Book
You can't count a man out because one record went different direction. You gotta count the things that scored, not the misses.Collection: Men
I rap for listeners, blunt heads, fly ladies and prisonersCollection: Rap
To me, hip-hop's been dead for years. We all should know that. With that being said, then, the object of the game now is to make money off of exploiting it. That's what it's all about - get this money. That's basically what I'm saying.Collection: Years
You're supposed to be who you are. You're supposed to make music that is true to you.Collection: Be Who You Are
Hip-hop artist, especially the older ones, are the ones who new hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.Collection: Artist
Love the skinny model chicks but I prefer the thickness.Collection: Skinny
Dogs live longer than rappers.Collection: Dog
I want each album to say something different and be accepted better than the last one but I don't have any point to outdo any particular album of mine.Collection: Different
The Internet made the world smaller, so it's easier for people to hear your music. You don't necessarily need a radio record.Collection: People
I just appreciate what Andre 3000 has done musically - just the bravery. I think Andre 3000 may be one of the bravest artists in rap music.Collection: Rap
I'm never gonna die, never heard of death, energy can never be destroyed only the flesh.Collection: Energy
I'm capable of anything, my imagination can give me wingsCollection: Wings
Respect all fear none my pride is everythingCollection: Pride
Don't speak to fools, they scorn the wisdom of your words.Collection: Fool
Born alone, die alone, no crew to keep my crown or throneCollection: Thrones
Niggas hate what they can't understand, fear what they can't conquerCollection: Hate
The greatest sin is fear and giving up.Collection: Giving Up
The hardest thing is to forgive, but God does, even if you murdered or robbed, ya it's wrong, but God loves, take one step toward him he'll take two toward you, even when all else fails, God'll support youCollection: Support You
You are who you associate with. Look around at your five closest friends and that's who you are. If you don't want to be that person, you know what you gotta do.Collection: Looks
A lot of times it seems like, you ain't gon' make it where you wanna be in life. But, yo if you got a plan, believe me you gon' get there. You gon' get everything you ever wantedCollection: Believe