"Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, peopl...












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"I'm a hustler, baby; I sell water to a well!
"Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say,...
"Only God can judge me so I'm gone, either love me or leave me alone.
"I've always believed in good music over bad music. I believe in two sorts of musics. And the lines that separate us, I don't believe in that. That's f...
"Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.
"I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man!
"To me, its just a word, a word whose power is owned by the user and his or her intention. People give words power, so banning a word is futile, really...
"A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
"You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you.