No matter what part of the country you come from, you can always come together to make groundbreaking hip-hop.
My mind on my money, my money on my mind.
Shakespeare's gone, don't even think about it.
The advancement of style is the cornerstone of hip hop. There is no correct or conservative way to make rap music. Rap is and must remain the answer, the alternative, to the conservative approach of making music.
My forte is the music. But obviously if ya don't keep up with the business, then your kinda doing it for nothing. So I do plan on being well off doing, maximizing what I do now. I heard Jimmy Kimmel describe being in your thirties in hip-hop is like the equivalent to being 300 yrs. old; almost like a dinosaur.
You are not doing hip hop; you ARE hip hop.
A born terror, a rebel without a pause. . . Ain't never had a good Christmas, so who is Santa Claus?
For me, growing up in hip-hop culture, it's all about having the next style, the new fashion, the new way to express yourself, the fly new beat. I can't sit still; I have no nostalgia. I don't have to have nostalgia.
I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, jazz to indie to alternative. So whatever. I listen to all if it. Classic rock and classic pop, all of that.
I grew up listening to Tupac, Biggie and other hip hop artists in the 90s. To this day, their music is still some of my favorite.
How could you possibly stop the apocalypse when I'm atomic bombin' the populace?
Rappers act so wild, and love to profile, Frontin' hard, but ain't got no style.
I like hip-hop music, but some of the lyrics make me want to cry.
It's foul what this money could do, cash corrupts the loyal.
War's extremely serious and it saddens me.
Complainin' to my lawyer how this rookie tried to frisk me. . . Jealous of my jeep, I gave his badge to the chief, And got his ass directin' traffic in the heat for a week.
How you know where I'm at when you haven't been where I've been? Understand where I'm coming from?
I do experiment with lots of different genres. In making music, I don't think of genre like, "I want to do this, because I'm going use that country music sound; I'm going use that hip-hop sound; I'm going use that acoustic [sound]. " It's just making music. So now that I've traveled a lot more since I did Acoustic Soul, I'm sure that different sounds will come into place, because I have been exposed to it and I like it. But it's not so much of a conscience effort. It's mind and spirited. You know, we're humans.
I can't take it y'all I can feel the city breathin Chest heavin, against the flesh of the evening Sigh before we die like the last train leaving
All I can say is that I've had too many people in the hip-hop industry really like what I'm doing. I know where I'm coming from, and the album speaks for itself.
