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I'm a cinephile. I love movies, I love film at every level. I'm a student of it. It informs me as does all art in my music, because there's stories, there's acts, there's moods, there's dynamics, there's moodiness, emotion. All of those things that play into a film. I think that could equally be said about music. It definitely informs me. Beats is stories.

Art, Emotion, Informs, Play, Thinking

So concisely, musically we are the herb So sit back and light me. Inhale. . . My style's kinda fat, reminiscent of a whale.

Fat, Kinda, Light, Rap, Reminiscent, Whales

And even though we both fly Give each other space and not the evil eye

Evil, Eye, Space, Though

I am recognizing that the voice inside my head Is urging me to be myself, but never follow someone else Because opinions are like voices, we all have a different kind.

Follow, Head, Hip Hop, Rap, Recognizing, Voice

Back in the days when I was a teenager, Before I had status and before I had a pager, You could find The Abstract listening to hip-hop, My pops used to say, it reminded him of be-bop, I said, well daddy don't you know that things go in cycles, The way that Bobby Brown is just ampin' like Michael, It's all expected, things are for the lookin', If you got the money, Quest is for the bookin'. . .

Back, Daddy, Like, Lookin, Rap, Teenager

We got to stay awake for all these lizards and snakes; Some of them come as friends, some of them come as Jakes.

Come, Hip Hop, Lizards, Rap, Snakes, Stay

For people who love Tribe, I'm the defector. They say, 'You should get back with Ali to do the beats. ' But a lot of people don't realize I did all the music in Tribe. In the first three albums, I did all the beats!

Albums, Love, People, Three, Tribe

Shorty, let me tell you about my only vice: It has to do with lots of lovin', and it ain't nuttin' nice.

Hip Hop, Lovin, Nice, Rap, Vice

Predating the Internet and predating videos, you had an active imagination. You would hear sounds and then get mental pictures of what these sounds felt like to you. It engaged you and made you more invested in it. It made you want to get tickets to the show, buy the album, put the poster on the wall. Now it's sensory overload.

Engaged, Imagination, Sounds, Tickets, Wall

We got to mediate our greedy levels, Cause the lust of currency can have us sleepin with the devil.

Cause, Hip Hop, Levels, Lust, Mediate, Rap

With the black male as a teenager, where you're coming from the ghettos and that kind of stuff, you've got to assert yourself, be macho, not let anybody walk over you, so that's where all this unnecessary bullshit comes from - from egos. That's why there are a lot of fights. That's how come the whole thing with rap has been violent. It's because of the male ego.

Assert, Bullshit, Ghetto, Rap, Teenager, Whole

know the feelin, when you feelin like a villain, You be havin good thoughts but the evils be revealin'. And the stresses of life can take you off the right path, Jealousy and envy tends to infiltrate your staff. . . We gotta hold it down so we can move on past All adversities, so we can get through fast.

Evils, Gotta, Hold, Moving, Rap, Stress

The world is kinda cold and the rhythm is my blanket, Wrap yourself up in it, if you love it, then you'll thank it

Blanket, Cold, Rap, Thank, World, Wrap

One step at a time, a man walked on the moon. One record got played, Kool Herc said, 'Boom!'

Herc, Men, Moon, Rap, Said, Step

We all have our own takes on things. To being yourself. The abstract, the whole thing that I play with, seems to result in seeing through your lenses, and once you express how you see things to others, you start to see there are similarities between all people. It's kind of like, no matter how far you go, you're still where you started, in a way.

Being Yourself, Like, Matter, People, Play, Takes

One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations.

Expectations, Music, Music Industry, Taught, Thing

Satisfaction, I have the right tactics. . . And if you need em I got crazy prophylactics.

Crazy, Hip Hop, Prophylactics, Rap, Right

Funky like your grandpa's drawers, don't test me We in like that, you're dead like Presley

Grandpa, Like, Presley, Rap, Test, Tests

I'll have you weak in the knees that you could hardly speak, Or we could do like Uncle L and swing an ep in my Jeep.

Like, Rap, Swing, Swings, Uncles, Weak

Genetics and beats? I feel like the drumbeat is a natural thing. Our heartbeat moves at a certain BPM. The drumbeat, being the first instrument, the platform for us, being that we all kind of come from that - it's all beats.

Beats, Come, Firsts, Kind, Moving, Natural

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