Alexander created cities everywhere he passed: I have left dreams everywhere I have trailed my life.
The biggest thing that has happened to hip-hop is the clinging on to the corporation as the all-mighty hub of the music.
And when I say it, they get alarmed. . . 'Cause I'm louder than a bomb.
Oh, America is slipping away from the rest of the consciousness of the planet - slipping away.
Where else can you go with respect to the work, lyrics, and message of the music? If you are past high school age, you can get by with saying very little the first or second time around. However, after a while you know you are going to have to say something beyond high school stuff.
Music should be some kind of nourishment.
One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own course. I don't like that hip hop is full of infantile 35-year-olds. Hip hop cannot afford to be lazy.
If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can always seem to get people to sing with me.
To be somebody, you must last.
Making art is a rite of initiation. People change their souls.
There are a lot of ways that investment banking models work, but these risks are not internalized by the people that are taking them.