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I'm not a security-type person: I don't want to have bodyguards around me. I'm not into all that.

Every true hustler knows that you cannot hustle forever. You will go to jail eventually.

Back in third grade, they used to say, 'Take whatever talent you have and think of something you can do with it.' I liked to draw, but what could I do with it? Maybe I could be an art dealer - nah, can't see myself doing that. Maybe I could do commercial arts?

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The second time I went to jail, I was like, 'Okay, this is not the move.'

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I can't even see me wasting my time or my talent to disrespect another black man.

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How real can your music be if you wake up in the morning hearing birds and crickets? I never hear birds when I wake up. Just a lot of construction work, the smell of Chinese takeout, children screaming, and everybody knocking a different track from 'Ready to Die' as they pass down the street.

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Growing up in the streets of Bed-Stuy, it was hard, yo.

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I cleaned up my act, and I made this rap thing work for me. I thought people would respect me for that. But instead, it's, 'Oh, he's sold all these records, and now he thinks he's all that.'

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I can't even say Puff and me are like brothers, 'cause we closer than that.

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I'm definitely a writer. I don't even know how to freestyle.

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