I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.
One step at a time, a man walked on the moon. One record got played, Kool Herc said, 'Boom!'
Ayo, shout out to Mobb Deep, the Extra P Busta Rhymes, De La, the J Beez, so don't sleep
In 1999, I just came out of putting out the song 'Vivrant Thing' and 'Breathe and Stop' off the 'Amplified' album. Clive Davis signed me to Arista.
I do try to speak of positive things. I still try to, like, present two sides of the story, and I do try to relate to life in a 360 degree and not be one-dimensional. But by all means, manage expectations.
You never know: rain, sleet, hail, snow, See you gotta accept that's how things go. Prepare for the rainy day, or the sun's glow, But there's clouds movin' in and the clouds gonna blow.
I grew up on the rough side of the tracks. If you looked like you were soft, you would be fodder for the wolves. I came up in my neighbourhood like, 'I'm just gonna be me,' and all the thugs just said, 'It's OK, he's special. ' They knew I had the talent with the rhymes, so they kept me around.
It's unnatural and unhealthy for a nation to be engaged in global crusades for some principle or idea while neglecting the needs of its own people.
There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
Let me into the darkness again.