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No Doubt is one of the groups that I think everybody listens to, man, and everybody loves Gwen Stefani.
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We gotta let hip-hop grow. We gotta let it go through its different phases throughout the different places that's accepting it.
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Jada, Styles P, the LOX, period. You throw on one of their joints... I'm in the whip; I try to keep my cool in the whip. I don't like bouncing around, getting my crazy on, but it's certain joints you gotta wild out. Roll the window down, blast the joints, let it be heard. That's one of them groups that bang it out.
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I stick to my guns - that's what keeps me going as an artist. Stevie Wonder never changed from what he wanted to do, and each new album that came along was dope.
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When I started rhyming, my favorite rhythms were from John Coltrane and some of the things he did on sax. And certain rhythms that I hear on drums, I try to emulate with my words, dropping on the same patterns that them beats or them notes would hit.
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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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I love what I live, and I live Islam, so I applied it to everything I do. I applied it to my rhymes, and I felt that I wanted the people to know what I knew.
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When you look at hip-hop, I want to do that: to spit fire and take our best from the ashes to build our kingdom; to recognize all the regional styles, conscious lyrics, the tracks, underground, mainstream, the way we treat each other. Lose the garbage and rebuild our scene.
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My thing was, I loved music. I played music: I played the saxophone. So the little bit of music knowhow I had, I tried to implement that in every thing I did, from my style, my cadence, the way I tried to pause and stagnate it; that all came from John Coltrane and listening to jazz albums. Trying to rhyme like a jazz player.
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You grow, you mature, you live, and you learn. You get a little wiser, and you learn better ways to handle things.
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I'm definitely one of them artists that loves putting the track on and having fun with it, but in my own way.
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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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You've really got to appreciate an artist that's really outspoken and feels like his music can change the world.
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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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I'm a fan of hip-hop as well. I like everybody who keeps the game on their toes and keep it pushing.
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When you're dealing with a bunch of different producers, you gotta make sure the chemistry fits.
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Maybe I'm too sensitive to the struggle, but I think a lot of people that listen to music are trying to escape.
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I try to support my kids in what they do and, at the same time, not push them towards anything.
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I had a lot of respect for Prodigy. He brought the hood to the booth. When we were trying to shape this rap thing into something, he was one of the cats I respected for bringing the hood into the booth.
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I was an athlete in college - a quarterback, a leader - so people telling me what to do doesn't work.
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People think the older you get, the wacker you get. I think the older I get, the better I get.
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I'm more of a wordsmith, so I like taking different words and trying to see what I can do with them - as many things as possible.
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One of the main reasons why it didn't work out for me and Aftermath is because I felt my music should sound one way, and they felt it should sound another. But, I learned a lot from watching Dre, and when I left California, I knew it was time for me to get my own label.
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When I broke up with Eric B., I went on a little hiatus. Then all I was trying do is find producers. It's real hard, man.
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I was always a laid-back, subdued person, and I just try to let that speak through my music.
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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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I always went left to what everybody else was doing. I'm used to going against the grain.
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I love Kanye for that. Being a producer, making beats, and being a rapper. He does it all.
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