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To me, sometimes things outside of rap inspire me to rap.

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Music, life, a lot of the things that we go through in the world, a lot of questions that we have about the world inspires me.

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My approach to writing rhymes went hand in hand with the music. I'd try to make different rhythms with my rhymes on the track by tripping up patterns, using multi-syllable words, different syncopations. I'd try to be like a different instrument.

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You come up, you love music, and then business interferes.

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You know, I got kids. I got sons, and I try to tell them, 'Look, man, when you in the car and you get pulled over, hands on the steering wheel. 'Yes, sir. No sir.' Your job is to either wind up in jail, so I can come get you, or be able to pull off. That's your job.'

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I love Jay-Z, I love Kanye, and I praise the way he's been able to bring more business out of the jungle.

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When you listen to old-school music, you can smell your mother's food in the kitchen. You can feel where you was when you first heard that song. That's what's beautiful about music. It's for everyone, but we all have individual memories that make us love it.

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The young kids out there doing their thing, I can't knock them.

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Don't even go to the studio if you don't think that your music's going to do something. You're wasting your time and my time.

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As a young artist, especially in rap and at that time that I came out, originality was big.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: January 28th, 1968

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