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I think that's always the goal of art, is to make people ask themselves questions.
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One of my biggest fears with 'Coloring Book' was that it would be labeled. I hate labels. I never sought out for people to recognize it as a gospel album.
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When I was working on 'Coloring Book,' I knew that I wanted it to be a beacon for independent artists and music makers with their own agenda.
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I was a mad, impressionable kid, and every skit from 'The College Dropout' was telling me how I didn't need school.
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I think, as a black man, I have a responsibility to have knowledge and have an opinion.
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My grandmother is a huge part of my life. She's just a great woman: a woman of the church.
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I don't necessarily think, as a person of influence, that it's always my job to influence people regarding my opinion.
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I don't consider being a musician the same thing as being a celebrity.
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I used to always rock a cap when I was in high school and get them taken away. It was an excessive amount. Like, so often that, at the end of each school year, there would be a box of all the confiscated caps. After they gave back a few caps to other kids, they would just give me the box because the rest were all my hats.
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I hate that when you introduce yourself, and you're a rapper, sometimes you gotta say, 'I'm a musician.' Or, 'I'm an artist.' 'I'm a recording artist.' 'I'm a vocalist.'
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There is a multitude of experiences that make up the black experience.
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I don't have to carry myself as anybody that I'm not, and people picked up on it.
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Mixtapes have always been a guerrilla-style means of moving music.
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People don't want rap to be anything other than it is. But genres expand. My contributions, no matter how they sound, will always be rap, because they'll always be black.
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Being in the space that I am as a writer, and just as a black dude in America, there's this push to be cool or be what you're expected to be. There's a need for a song that puts that in perspective. I think that's an important thing for young children to hear growing up.
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There are cases where you can say a lot more in a hook than you can by making things more complex in a verse.
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That's what I've always wanted to do - work with my favorite writers and make something from scratch with them that we can feel like didn't exist before we came in the room.
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I like the fact that some of your favorite Broadway musicals are not made into movies.
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God and my dad gave me the gift of gab. I know how to finagle.
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I think when you're in my position as an artist, I can say what I want and talk about the issues that matter.
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I think politics is a reason why a lot of stuff doesn't get done. There's a lot of favors, and a lot of people are held back by their intentions of being re-elected or the things that they owe their party or constituents.
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I would never run for any office or government position. I'm not into it.
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There's a larger conversation we need to have about the role of police officers, their relationship to the people as enemy or executioner, when they're not supposed to be either.
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There's always been a quiet conversation and joke that if you're not hard, if you're not from impoverished neighborhoods, if you're not certain constructs of a black stereotype, then you not black.
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I'm a young dude from Chicago who grew up with Kanye as my image of hip-hop. Finding your voice in a room where you have to challenge Kanye is scary - but it's also life-affirming.
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Where he tells you exactly how he views the world - just very straight Kanye, honesty that definitely gets your creativity and strong opinions out on the floor. I think it helped me find myself.
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I can't really speak on her policies, but I feel a certain connection to Hillary Clinton that's just not there with Donald Trump.
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I'm a big Rick Ross fan, and I think everybody knows I'm a big Kanye fan.
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I don't want to say this in a lame way, but D. Rose is one of my heroes. His whole story and background and what he's done for communities in Chicago is super inspiring.
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I would largely attribute my identity - as it relates to music labels and corporate music giants - to Dave Chappelle and his relationship to and firm standing in Hollywood.
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I want to travel overseas and help out people all over the world.
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I want to be more involved outside just my community of Chicago.
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You can love somebody through anything when they're your child, and now that I understand that, it makes me work better with people; it makes me more understanding of how much dedication and love I can put into each line. There's no throwaway lines.
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I didn't know love until I had my daughter. I didn't know its bounds.
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I still think that God means everything to everyone, whether they understand it or not or can see for themselves.
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I know for a fact that we're not pushed or promoted to speak about God with fervor.
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I just need to take better care of myself. I try to push it as far as I can.
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I don't think I ever wanted to be like Kanye in personality. I think I definitely want to, have always wanted to, have his boldness or assurance in myself.
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I go broke a lot... I go broke a lot because I have this understanding that whatever I put out there, if I really am doing what's right, it's going to be rewarding, you know?
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I always wanted to be more of a person that people enjoy. Somebody that will make you laugh. I'm talking about just my personality, not necessarily how my music sounds.
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I had already been making music for my whole high school life, and '10 Day,' which took me a whole year to finish, was about working with a lot of different producers and learning all of the aspects about being a rapper, from shows to recording to studio etiquette to marketing.
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