"No one came to our neighborhoods, with stand-up jobs, and showed us there's a different way. Maybe had I seen different role models, maybe I'd've turned on to that"
I didn't have enough life experience, so what I was doing was more technical. I was trying to impress technically. To do things that other people cannot do. Like, you can't do this" — insert beat-box and simultaneous freestyle here — "you just can't do that."
"I think the reason I still make music is because of the challenge"
"As I started getting life experiences, I realized my power was in conveying emotions that people feel"
"Before, if you didn't have that authenticity, your career could be over. Vanilla Ice said he got stabbed or something, they found out he was lying, he was finished… I think hip-hop has moved away from that place of everything has to be authentic. Kids are growing up very differently now"
"I think all those things need to really declare themselves a bit more clearly. Because when you just say that 'the 1 percent is that,' that's not true. Yeah, the 1 percent that's robbing people, and deceiving people, these fixed mortgages and all these things, and then taking their home away from them, that's criminal, that's bad. Not being an entrepreneur. This is free enterprise. This is what America is built on."
"Yeah, but Tupac was an angel compared to these artists!"
"People have a real aversion to what people in power did to the country. So they're just lashing out, like: 'This is the son that you made. Look at your son. Look at what you've done"
"She doesn't have to be tough. She has to love herself, she has to know who she is, she has to be respectful, and be a moral person."(On his daughter Blue Ivy)
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