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I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.

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The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from its greed-based origins, downsizes, and begins to support creative visions that speak to our times and shifting ideals.

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I didn't ever want to make a rap album. I considered it too limiting. Now that's exactly what I've gone and done.

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More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry.

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I am hoping for peaceful transition into a new age. Obama has already played a great role in initiating us into that vision. If he were to be harmed in any way, it would spawn the birth of a million Obamas.

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I'm very excited about the resurgence of vinyl which seems to parallel a growing interest in live performance.

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I've always been inspired by a lot of work coming out of the UK.

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There's no doubt in my mind that 'Slam' is going to be huge. It's a film about the power of language. People are going to see this and get blown away.

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The MC has to be just that, a master in control. They can show no signs of weakness.

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The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it.

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I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations.

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I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.

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The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence.

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What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.

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Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.

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The MC that we love are usually the ones that we consider be kinda heartless, like 50 Cent. That's pretty much the prowess and power of an MC. That's what sells.

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If we're gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other is a lie. There are no other people. Race is a social construct.

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'Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.

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Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it.

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Jay Z and President Bush have a lot in common, that same brash confidence.

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