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I scored 1.1 on my SAT, And still push a whip with a right and left AC.
I always try and think about what the 'hood would say when I do things.
Don't do anything for fear, because fear will never do anything for you.
I highly respect Eminem. I rank him up there with Jay Z, Biggie and Nas.
When people see that we're signed to Def Jam, the perception has changed.
By the time I was, you know, 16 years old, I had done a lot of growing up.
We're trying to plug a void and bring what's been missing back to hip-hop.
The Roots - we signed our first record deal when I was about 19 years old.
Next time y'all need to find me, just rub these two wires for the doorbell.
My man slangs rocks like up the block, 143RD and Amsterdam by the smoke shop
It's important to practice good hygiene, At least if you wanna run with my team.
Music is the outlet to bigger and better business; that's what I'm excited about.
If hip-hop is dead, then let it rest in peace and let's move on to something else.
In a lot of places Jay-Z is considered God, Philly, our hometown being one of them.
I swear, I have not played 'Dare Iz A Darkside' damn near since I did it. Seriously!
I'm sautéing emcees with fried rice up in the wok without the MSG and chopped celery.
You know what make me laugh? Good, clean, honest humor. Not-trying-to-be-funny humor.
I will not be doing any more sitcoms, unless it's my own or a movie or I'm directing.
Every album I just try to step it up. I don't try to overdo myself, overpower myself.
I got a family to take care of and kids to feed. That's my motivation, this is my job.
I started as a visual artist and I've always dealt with music in that same sort of way.
Questlove and I - we were in high school with artists like Boyz II Men and Amel Larrieux.
I grew up in Mount Airy, a middle-class enclave in the Northwestern area of Philadelphia.
I cannot stand no wack MC. So step back if you please, And don't test me, you're history.
I smoked with a lot of college students... Most of em wasn't graduatin, and they knew it.
I don't want to help brand someone else and not have equity or ownership in that company.
The most profound memory I have from my childhood is burning down my house at 6 years old.
There's no difference between rocking in front of a crowd or rocking in front of a camera.
I move in silence. I don't like puttin' too much of me out there to be dissected, analyzed.
I can promise my fans what you see from me is what you get! No additives, no preservatives.
Long as I live large, life will be luxury, Ladies in Lamborghinis...love is like luck to me.
The principles of true hip-hop have been forsaken, It's all contractual and about money makin'.
Your whole vocabulary's played out, admit it. Still wack if it came out my mouth and I spit it.
You can always hear me breathing during my verses, but that breathing becomes part of the music.
I'm an artist, not a rapper... so my musical genres and library is way beyond the normal rapper.
I think we need more community health programs and we need to develop programs that are low-cost.
I'm going to stick to college radio, like I been started off, like I started off with in the day.
What we were doing was alien in '92. We were less than immediately accepted by our fans and peers.
I think poor folks are the only people who cannot afford - financially and otherwise - to be sick.
When I hit the bong I'm Godzilla takin' over Hong Kong Eatin' wonton with a shotgun in long johns.
The difference between a Black Thought album and a Roots album is the texture, the instrumentation.
We've been branded 'the thinking man's hip-hop.' So the music's got to have some level of maturity.
The thing that's carried over from my visual-art education into what I do musically is my openness.
And the blunts and liquor killing our lungs and liver. The asthmatic drug-addict, I function with it
I was always doing an independent kind of move while I was still with a label. They just stamped it.
I tried moving to the more white area, but I found that every night I was getting harassed by police.
Crazy frustration, about my lovin situation; When patience was a virtue...but I wasn't used to waitin.
I was always creative with the artwork. Always creative with the visuals. That's what made me standout.
I like Kendrick as an artist. He's witty and he's smart when he's spitting in his lyrics. And he's crafty.
Some of my favorites are the classics like 'What They Do,' 'Proceed,' 'You Got Me,' and 'Silent Treatment.'