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L.A.'s always been good to me.
It's true, the Shaolin and the Wu-Tang, could be dangerous.
In order to be one of the greats, you've got to study the greats.
As you keep shooting the ball, you become a better basketball player.
Call me the rap assassinator / rhymes rugged and built like Schwarzenegger
Analyzin' miss clairol, fendi'd down mascara on, assistant manager in paragon
Soul music has so many great artists who put their thing down. That's important.
No question I would speed for cracks and weed The combination made my eyes bleed.
I got beef with commercial-ass niggas with gold teeth Lampin' in a Lexus eatin' beef.
I doubt if you get another Wu-Tang Clan. That might be harder than getting the new Jackson Five
Growing up in music motivated me. I applied that to my education and it made me a better person.
I think a lot of people can learn from listening to hip hop. It ain't always about beats and rhymes.
All I did was take my time, figure out where I made a lot of mistakes and try not to make them no more.
I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totally different thing.
I'm my own biggest marketing tool. I know the history of the business and I might as well capitalize on it.
I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.
I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.
You know the steez; you know my whole program. Brothers from the No-Lands, all we want is the G's guns and grams.
When you devote yourself to being an artist, you have to stay on your craft and always try to get better and better.
I don't have one track that I consider better than the next because all I'm trying to do is still grow as an artist.
I just want to be remembered as a dope MC. As somebody who really covered a lot of ground and became internationally known.
When I sit here and see that the eight brothers from the neighborhood that I grew up with still have success, it had to be magical.
The better you get, the more your legacy shines. I always just try to go hard. If you don't want do it for real, don't do it at all.
In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.
When you think of Hollywood, you think of the land of opportunity. I always want to have the opportunity to do things conducive to my career.
I love the energy that comes when I get on the mic. It keeps me creative and I love to hear what the fans want, what they love or hate about it.
It's for real though, let's connect, politic...ditto! We could trade places, get lifted in the staircases, Word up, peace, incarcerated scarfaces.
The main thing I look at is: Is it from the heart? If I know that you down with me, then we always gonna be down through whatever the thick and thin.
I'm not an artist that strays away from my fans. Nah, everybody is open to come and talk to me respectfully and I'm going to give them the same respect.
I consider myself a genius because, when you talk about anything and everything, you a genius to me. It's just about makin' it fire on top o' more fire.
Sometimes you can make a substantial amount of money and automatically think that you've made it, that you did everything you wanted to do. Some people just stop.
I think that's a weak excuse, to say because a rapper's getting older that he ain't got it no more. Nah. Don't go by that philosophy. Let's just recognize that talent is within.
I love to get on tracks with brothers like Inspectah Deck, Masta Killa, the GZA. The whole crew is golden, man. When you think of us, you gotta say, 'Yo, these are the Jacksons of hip-hop.'
The most important thing is just to be recognised as a legend, like the people call me. To have that title attached to your name, you've got to be a bad man. It's an honour to have that role.
So for me, I had to get something going to promote the new project that I got. I decided to come with the 'Lost Jewelry' EP, which is a mixtape but it's more sexier because it's all fresh music.
I'm very unpredictable, but at the end of the day, I'm working. Sometimes things change in my life. It's like, 'Hold up - that ain't feel good. That felt good.' And that's how I look at anything I do.
When I'm making the music, I feel like everything I throw out has to work. It counts. Because if you don't have people turning they neck all the way around to see what it is, it ain't stick on the wall.
It's important to have a spiritual side because tomorrow's no promise to us. We have to pay homage to our saviour and put him in our life more because, without him, you don't know where you're going to go.
I always give RZA that support as far as saying he brought Wu-Tang to the table. It was his philosophy. He picked certain dudes to be part of this group, and he said, 'This is what it's going to be called.'
You know the things I went through as a youngster, coming into the business, all the good, the bad and the ugly that came. I'd had a rough life. I grew up single parent. My mom, she was like a father to me.
As an artist, it's so important to create music that puts a chill through your body or does something to make you feel good. I think my album has a little bit of everything in it and that's important to me.
Ghost tells me every few years, Yo, you showed me this style ... I'm like, man, we the same style. At the end of the day, he's one of my favorite rappers, I'm one of his favorite rappers, and we just do it.
You gotta have a schedule, you gotta have a team that's passionate about seeing you do the things you say you wanna do. When it comes to delivering this, it takes a lot of work and I can't do that on my own.
A star's the work - the work ethic you put into the business, and the people you excite. We only wanted to excite only a few people at that time, which was some o' the emcees that was hot that was in the game.
If you gonna challenge my ways, know my history. Don't put nobody in my face that don't know about me, or they here to write an article on someone they thought was hot when they was hot. Come on, man. I been hot.
Well Ice H20 is my company that I plan to take to the next level with new artists, books, movies and so forth. It's more like a multimedia brand that I want to take to the next level and put some talented people on.
I think there are a lot of dudes out there that are runnin' out of gas. Some of my favourites, even ones I look up to... I haven't been fully impressed with their dynamics of makin' a body of work that makes sense to me.
I just wanted to give them the 'Lost Jewelry' so they can say, 'Yo, they get that's mean.' And then when I tell 'em, 'Yo, that ain't even the meal. Get ready for the meal!' That's when we 'bout to go crazy because the taste of the appetizer.
I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.
As far as the creative side of making great, great albums and really trying to go down in history? I don't see that happening lately, you know what I mean? You have a lot of guys is talented, but at the same time, timeless music is more important to me.