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Coming out with records when you’re in a big, successful group that plays stadiums, that’s scary to come out by yourself.

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Crime and violence are the easiest emotions to reenact.

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Disco is the first technology music. And what I mean is that ‘disco’ music is named after discs, because when technology grew to where they didn’t need a band in the clubs, the DJ played it on a disc.

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Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society.

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Every election is important and each election says it’s more important than the last.

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Everything affects hip-hop. The question is, how does it affect the money that corporations are going to invest to put out different kinds of hip-hop?

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Fashion is becoming the same thing as our devices.

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Great coders are today’s rock stars.

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Hip-hop culture is probably one of the most powerful things to come out of America in a long time – everything from the music to the art to the dance to the language.

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Hip-hop is limiting itself and that also goes for editorially. Magazines and websites are the gatekeepers of what people think hip-hop is, but they actually end up limiting what hip-hop can be.

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