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Busta Rhymes

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“Because we're going to do this shit properly. And I've never done an interview in 33 years. Never done an interview this in depth. Number two, I ain't never sat with nobody this motherfucking long and did no interview in Europe in my life neither. You hold a record, bro.”
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“Becoming a successful businessman. I was driven inspired by the story that I was being told about you. And I was like, oh no, fuck that. I got to come pull up and I'm taking my time.”
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“The questions you ask, Places you went, I didn't expect it. I'm glad that it wasn't prepped. Glad I wasn't prepped. I'm glad. You know what I'm saying? I just was given a prerequisite of how important you mean in this space and your platform. And congratulations to the... Your evolution and your success with what you've been able to create for yourself”
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“We're not only here to give them the answers and the mentorship and the guidance and the information so they could be that much more sharper when they're being creative or when they're sitting in a fucking corporate office negotiating a deal with their lawyers and their managers. But I also want them to know that We love them too Fans of what they doin' We see our paying homage and we want y'all to know we paying homage to y'all too.”
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“And I want to work with them because they're still inspiring me to want to go in the studio and stay razor blades sharp with my shit when I got to do my shit. You know what I'm saying? And I see a lot of them paying homage. There's a lot of motherfuckers walking around with their hairstyles like how I used to wear it with my dress. There's a lot of motherfuckers that dress and they throw their heavy jewelry on that do it the way I used to do it and still do it. I just ain't got the dredge no more, but all that other shit, we still doing it. But I just want to make sure that they know.”
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“gave me my name. Big Daddy Kane used to let me come to his crib and ask questions. He put me on his albums. He used to help me learn, let me learn. Bring me the shows that he was performing at fucking de la Soul. They did the same shit for us. Many MCs gave us the guidance that made me great. I feel like it's only right that we do the same shit for the next generation of motherfuckers, especially if they don't. And I'm a fan of a lot of these new artists.”
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“Two reasons First reason is I'm never gonna listen to the narrative of this thing where I would hear it. Little more regularly than I actually choose to hear it. I actually don't ever want to hear it. But it's this bullshit about how the elder statesman or the older MCs don't really respect what the new guys is doing. That shit is bullshit. Speaking for myself and the type of artists that I surround myself with, we don't feel like that. We don't move like that. We encourage that shit because when we was young artists, we wanted the big dudes to put their arms around us and give us game and school us and teach us shit so we could be better. You know what I'm saying?”
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“Absolutely the blockbuster album is out and I'm super grateful to everybody that participated in helping this magic happen to come together.”
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“Once you did what you needed to do and put in the work you needed to put in so that it shows Not going to say it if it don't look like the way they need to see it so they can say what they need to say. When that happened You hearing the right shit. Feeling the right love A ship was lifting my spirit so much, and then I'ma tell you something. Going through this pandemic was another serious challenge mentally and emotionally and spiritually. My brother's Ferrell, Williams, and Swiss Beats. And big up the Timbullan two because all four of them is the executive producers of this new album Buster.”
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“I rented a motherfucking mansion for like seven bedrooms. I went and got a cameraman to document it. My meal prep chef, my masks, because I knew that that workout was going to fuck me up every day and I needed somebody to rub these muscles up. I got my recording engineer, so I didn't need to leave the house. Got an assistant That was about it Stayed in the fucking crib for 30 days. Lost about 27 pounds in 30 days. These that I'm surrounded by By way of my first bodybuilding competitor trainer, Victor Munoz and my second primary trainer, the legendary Mr. Olympia himself, Dexter Jackson, I was able to get my shit together, bro. And once I got my health and once I got my mind and I got my spirit right, And I started to be proud of me when I looked at me and my kids was looking at me and they would say shit that you could only hear”
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“Driving in his car in Jacksonville, Florida, and he's spittin' the vocals to put your hands on my Oscar see. And then I hit him in the DM and I said mister Jackson, I'm a huge fan of you as a professional bodybuilder. Is there any way that we could get on the phone? I need your help. He hits me back, he sends me his number. I call him on the phone. Thanks for calling me. I salute you, Mr. Jackson. Can we please figure out a way to get me back in shape? Man said to me, You saw you ready, bust? And I said, You got to come to Jacksonville and you got to stay here for 30 days. To your girl she can't come, tell your kids you see them in 30 days. I need to put you through something for 30 days before we continue this journey. You survived this thirty days? I know you're serious.”
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“This is when I knew this shit was crazy. My son now, I'm calling him, telling him to meet me at the hospital. We get to the hospital and I'm in the doctor's office and they doing all the preliminary shit before they got to admit me into the emergency. My son is talking to me and he tells me. I thought you were going to die last night. And I ain't never been as scared that. But I'm scared you're going to die. I lost grandpa already. I can't lose you too. Can you please stop drinking? Can you please stop smoking? Can you please get back to the daddy that I know you to be? Finished me. I made up my mind. I'm going to get the surgery. When I get this surgery, I'm going to get in shape. Go home. On the way home Dexter Jackson. He became one of the Mr Olympia champ, this man pops up in my stories”
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“And I take a shower, and the central air system is blowing. And I catch a draught that can lead to me catching a cold. And that last ten percent of my breathing gets blocked up because of a swollen gland from a sore throat or some shit. I can die in my sleep that night. He said, I've got to call an ambulance for you. I'm in California. LA, he says, I need you to go right now to UCLA Medical Center into the emergency room. And I'm going to call the head person at the hospital to have them admit you immediately. You need to go into surgery tomorrow I said, I ain't going in no ambulance. He said, well, then you have to sign this document that will exemplify me. If you don't listen and something happens and you die between now and when you get to the hospital, I ain't never been spoken to like this in my life.”
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“When he saw this shit He's been seeing it, but this is when it hits the low. That conversation fucked me up. The next day the doctors with the prednasone and I went to the doctor. I'm breathing so fucked up that outside of the door, the doctor was like, yo, Why are you breathing like that? And he wasn't even in the room with me. He's coming in the room. And I said, breathing like what? Because I was doing it for so long over the last three years that it was starting to sound normal to me. The doctor said I'm sending you to the hospital because he stuck this shit in my throat. And when he saw how big the fucking palops was, it blocked 90% of my breathing passage. He said if he sends me home.”
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“I drank myself into not a coma. I drank myself into an inability to wake myself up. I had to be woken up by my son and my security in LA. It took like forty five minutes and we had just come back from hanging out at a club called Poppies. He sat me down the next day. He was like, listen. I don't want to hurt your feelings because you're my father. I don't even know if I got the strength to say it to you now, but I had a conversation with the security. I need you to listen to them because I'm too scared to tell you how I feel. How bad it was. My son, they never speak to me like that in my life, but I needed to hear it. He couldn't even say it to me because that's how much he still Trying to protect my feelings. But this is the first time that I knew I really disappointed my son. All that buster rhyme shit was cool up until this moment.”
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“Nah, I wasn't on the breathing machine. I had sleep after. Oh, you had sleep happen new. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I sleep apnea. I was...”
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“I definitely reconciled with him before he passed. The problem is. I didn't get to enjoy my time with him once we got good. So that was a horrible feeling too. Because it's like All of the time that was wasted fucking not getting along was stupid. Fucking stupid. You know what I'm saying? That's part of the reason why I started to really get unhealthy and fucked up. I was trying everything to drown the pain and the frustration and the suffering. Of those losses By overworking, over drinking, over smoking, weed and cigarettes. And it got so bad that I got to the weight of 340 pounds. I've never been at it. I'm not even built to be that heavy. It's funny. It's like I look back at certain pictures and I looked at how overweight I was. I look at my skin. Yeah, there's certain pictures I had. I had these marks on my face.”
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“Absolutely, because I lost my father two years after Chris. The two most important male figures in my life. Chris was going 2012. I lost my father 2014.”
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“Psychologically, I couldn't get it together because I didn't feel like I had a support system that I could. To make me feel like I am psychologically able to move with the comfort, the confidence, and the support that I know I'm going to need. And the responsibility of trying to wear all of the hats myself, I was doing it, but I wasn't doing it at the level that Chris Lighty was able to do it.”
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“I wasn't happy though with just doing it like that. And I just, I didn't feel comfortable putting out music until I got the right support system in place and I couldn't get it together.”
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“It's when you know Chris was never coming back You know the crying started. And a lot of arguing started. Not a threat started. My life was going a whole other direction after that. and I didn't like it I was confused about how to move. and I was lost for a minute. I never really had to manage my career without a manager. And he wasn't just a manager, he was my brother. So it got scary for a minute. Couldn't get it together. That's why I didn't put on no record for nine years. I started to just do different type of business with Son an artist in a When we put out OT Genesis We have some really good success with him. Signed a few other artists, you know, just one artist by the name of Stove Stoveard Cooks and I signed another young artist by the name of Murder Mook and”
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“And she said she don't know he just hurt himself. And then we asked if he was dead and then she said she don't know. So when we got to Chris's home. We couldn't go in the house. It wasn't until You saw the coronaviran come. And when you saw the van, And then they reverse the van into the driveway. To get as close to the door. of the house. It was a downstairs door, and then there was the regular door to go up the stairs and you go in the house from the front. But Whatever happened to him it happened downstairs. Because that's where his body was And they went inside And they brought them black bags with them, them body bags in the That's when it got real. That's when it changed. Everything changed when you saw. Sort of When they came out the When they came out the basement with the bags and his body was in the bags.”
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“I think his daughter was coming home from college and he had to go and meet her at Grand Central Station in Manhattan. So He asked me for a ride to Grand Central Station. I give them the lift to Grand Central Station. And that's the last day that I saw him. Next morning. I get the call From his assistant If something happened to him. I'm asking what happened to him. And they just said he hurt himself, but they didn't say, you know, that he was dead. They just was like, he hurt himself. The assistant called this young lady, I forget her name, at the office, and when the young lady answered the phone, we're on the three way. And she's crying and she's screaming on the phone. She just kept saying, Chris hurt itself, Chris hurt itself, and the assistant is asking her what exactly did he do to himself.”
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“They were so fucking terrible bro. His life changed when this woman came into his life. I'm not going to dive too much into that part, but. I'm definitely going to say that Chris's life changed not for the better when she came around. So Once that happened, it started to change the energy amongst the violated family And I really wish, because I don't want this to be heard in a way where it seemed like I'm shitting on the woman because I'm not shitting on the woman. I'm acknowledging the reality of the situation, as you can see. I'm not saying nothing bad about the woman. I'm just talking about I'm acknowledging a time period where a change transpired in a significant way. And it happened after this woman came around. That's it. Long story short,”
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“Rest in peace to Chris was all that I Everything that I learned. After Chuck Dee and Hank Shockley and them, I learnt it with Chris. Learn how to make my money with Chris. A tax brackets change with Chris. My lawyers change'cause Chris, my booking agents change with Chris, my Torin experiences change with Chris. My ability to tell my mother to quit her job and never had to look back to work for nobody from nineteen ninety five to this day. All of that, I did it with Chris.”
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“And then there's moments when you can do it and you make the time and you do it. You know, but until there's another means of me being able to do what I love and find the fulfillment that I find while I'm doing what I love, This is also a part of who y'all fell in love with.”
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“It's And I also feel like when you identify with your gift, As part of the gift, as what makes it the gift, because the most high usually don't give us more than we can handle. And with that being said, Of these things we're talking about, which is one of the best questions that I love that you asked, right? What would I give my kids? And I keep coming back to that because I want my kids to understand. Let's focus on what you love is most primary, being selfish. And when I say selfish, not just my kids, but even my woman. There might be a lot of shit she want to do. Sorry. I can't do it right now. Can't do it right now. I could do it later.”
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“It definitely was survival. When you're dealing with four mothers all having you in court systems all getting significant amount of money for child support. All not in the best place relationship-wise with you Sometimes business is up, sometimes business is down. You have to be able to be swift and changeable regardless of the circumstances in order to stay remainable. Because no matter if business is up or business is down, the courts don't care. Child support that needs to come every month, the mothers need to see it because they don't care. Your kids need what they need He don't care. Because they didn't ask for this You can't create an excuse That's how I was raised. The kid didn't ask to be put in a situation that you cannot do what you're supposed to do for them. So it's not their problem. You have to find a solution.”
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“I'm going to tell you something. There is no right way and no wrong way when it comes to making that decision, other than what you know in your heart. I definitely live with guilt. I feel like there was things that I could have. Done without Be there for my children. But I also feel like that's me saying that now, right? In a different place now in my life. I was at that time. And at that time, Mentality that I have now didn't exist then, right? Mentality that needed to exist then for me to get to this mentality now was important and it was a part of the needed components to exist in my journey for me to be able to have this conversation now, this mentality now.”
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“Can leave outside of that room. And when I'm in that room, My destiny. I am fulfilling My soul and I'm making myself get to a place mentally where my peace of mind is so where it needs to be that not only am I allowed to become feel, think, and evolve into whatever place my mind takes me, I'm then able to get to that place emotionally, spiritually, mentally, create something, put it in a song, Change the effect that I can have as an impact through this thing that I'm blessed with as a gift. And then I could. Come down off of be in a happier place. So that when I do get back around the people that I got to argue with. I'm in a better place to deal with them.”
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“Circumstance and my circumstance which I obviously contributed to creating for myself, I had to take responsibility for these choices that I made and the circumstances that I created for myself. The situation that became a real life situation for me left me very few choices. So there was a choice where I could be there for everything, and then the money ain't where it need to be. I'm going to do what I love, not just because I love it. And it brings me joy and it brings me peace of mind because I would go to the studio. And when I'm in that studio and I close the door and then I'm in those four walls. I don't have to argue with the child's mother. I don't have to argue with my woman. I don't get talked back from people that choose to have a debate about shit that ain't even worth debating about. All of the unnecessary distractions.”
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“That selfish, I mean him even more extreme than that. Selfish to my father In a way, I don't want to look at it as what's selfish to him. I was just, I don't want to do what you want to do. That's not really being selfish. That's just having a difference in opinion, right? Selfish when I say selfish, it means my children, right? I've had to miss moments that were never going to get back. I missed my oldest son's high school graduation. One of my daughter's college graduations. times when I should have been there to teach My child, how to drive, or I should have been able to teach my child how to ride a bike. I missed a lot of that, right? A lot of it had to do with”
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“And you have to move in a way when it comes to those three things, when you function completely in a way where it's an unwavering faith. Like, it don't matter how fucked up that shit might look. It don't matter how much it feel like it ain't going to work Complete delusion. You got to believe the delusion Because it's only delusional until it works. So is it really delusional? Motherfucker only gonna call it delusion until it don't work. For nobody else to see but for the whole world to see. And then once the world see it, there's nothing delusional about it. Now you're delusion becomes, oh, he was a fucking genius. He didn't see it when he saw it. We didn't understand it when he did. We thought this motherfucker was crazy. But he definitely always figured this thing was the thing to do and he stuck by that shit.”
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“All right, this is what it needs to be. Some of it might sound fucked up. First thing is you got to be selfish as hell. You gotta be selfish. I don't give a fuck. It's the sacrifice, but without great sacrifice and without great risk, there is no such thing as great reward. Can't have one that doesn't, there's no, that math will never math. You know what I'm saying? You have to have, and I don't like this word, but I'm going to say it because it's true. You have to be a little maniacal with the shit. Maniac, right? That word isn't good in a lot of situations, but when you're pursuing your destiny, when you identify with your destiny, you have to be selfish. You have to be maniacal. You have to be uncompromising.”
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“Find it, love it, identify with what you love, become one with that thing, pursue it to the point where you become so engulfed in it, you don't know nothing else other than that. Walk in your purpose is what it evolves into.”
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“Little spliff, little food, a little bowl of cereal, and I just was joking in the crib and ya, yeah, yeah, yeah. Motherfuckers was laughing in my house. I thought it was funny. I did this shit on the record. I like funny, but I also like serious. There's always a balance between the guys that we found the most entertainment from. All of the dudes that was on TV that we liked that was the fucking criminals, they was always funny, right? Al Pacino and Scarface, he was a serious motherfucker, but he was funny. Joe Pesci and Goodfellas. Serious but funny, right? We in the hood, we love the balance between serious and funny I try to incorporate serious and funny and all of my shit. Bottom line is my children, the fundamentals I want to give you all.”
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“You can't make me call myself devil like because you think that it's a blasphemous act for me to say that I'm godly or I'm godlike or I'm made in a likeness of the most high That mentality is why I function this way. Because I refuse to think that there is nothing that I can't do. Beyond Beyond man If I could sit down here and smoke a spliff and eat a bowl of cereal and fucking go, ya, yah, ya, yah, ya, yah, ya, ya, ya, ya. When I step up in the place and when I step, I say, yo, what steps correct? Woo-ha, I got you on check. And the whole fucking planet. Doing it. It doesn't matter what country I go to. And then I get to Sweden and they telling me, ya, ya, yah, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. I ain't from Sweden. I don't know that. I just was vibing and bugging out the weed had me and filling away.”
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“Are identifying with your blessing? You are identifying with your gift. And at that point, you learn what the fuck it is and become one with it and walk in your purpose, bro. So, you might instill this thing into the lives of so many people that You live forever through this thing that you've created. That's not a man thing no more. That shit is deeper than man. I am absolutely addicted to that because You really think about it. That shit is something that's godly. Weird to me when people find it strange when we call ourselves gods and earth, right? Because I'm saying What do you want me to be? You want me to be. Other than Anything other than its original form is the worst state of its own existence. Because you're not even functioning within the nature that you was created to function in. So”
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“That's the most addictive shit in the world to me because it's like that's greater than man. You can't teach somebody how to do that. That's not a book science. That's not school. You know what I'm saying? That shit is you identify with this gift. We all got the gift. This is something that we've all been blessed with. At some point, if we listen to that fucking little thing that speaks to us inside, some people call it instinct. Some people call it a vibe. Some people call it an energy. Whatever the fuck you call it. Some people call it a voice. Whatever that thing is, bro. If it sparks the thought Changes the whole trajectory. What your life can evolve into because you took a second to listen to that shit.”
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“This fucking song did for me when I was 10. Now I'm 30. And in this moment when I was 10, I remember wearing this little t shirt with a yellow fucking balloon face on it. And I had my little bicycle outside. And my mother let me play with my two friends' two houses down. We played this fucking song 10 times in a row. Until we had to go inside. That song changed my life and it gave me the motivation to want to do this thing, evolve into this person. Think a new way that allowed me to pursue something that I found that I love. And now I'm a fucking $200 million CEO in Google. I'm a fan of shit. You're still doing what I love and I want to sit down with you and figure out something magical that we could do together.”
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“I could be sick and in the hospital and write a song. And even if I'm too weak to say it, I could give it to somebody. And work out whatever business I need to work out with that person so they still do that same song. God willing, the success of that song, that Hopefully is garnished, reaches a level of success based on this creation from a feeling that I was inspired by, or from a feeling that I got, that I can't explain and I can't give to nobody other than through this music. Will take care of not just my family, but it actually might take care of filling a space in the millions of people's lives that will hear this shit, that at some point, depending on the impact of the song, they fuck around and see you 20 years from now and become the fucking CEO of Google and will tell you, I am a fan. I love you”
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“In your soul, in your body, there's a feeling that even the money can't give you. There's people that have this money and they still can't find that feeling, man. And there's nothing like it. This is a feeling that really exists, bro. Can actually make you the happiest Person in the world That happens to be my music. And my children understand now Love my children so much and I love my family so much. I'm not playing with anything that I know is going to allow me the opportunity to make sure that I can show them and I can take care of them and I can without compromise find a way and a means to securing of the well-being of my family. And I found something that I love that has provided me those means and the ability to do it and I don't have to question how I'm going to get to that. On no day, I could be sick. I could be”
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“The fundamentals that I would give my kids, which Feel like I've been given to them is the first thing is identify with what you love. And once you love it, Hone in on that thing until you can master it to the point where. People can identify that there's no questioning your love for it. That's the first thing. Once you love it to the point where Your actions speak louder than anything you could say about how much you love it. That is always the root of whatever success is preordained or destined to come to you no matter what it is that you choose to do. What is actually going to create the revenue? Is that you're not doing it from a place of trying to generate the revenue? You're gonna do this shit regardless. So it's not about the money for you. You're fulfilling something.”
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“I don't exhaust myself too soon. Try to jump around all over the fucking stage going crazy. I think I might become a dangerous motherfucker that's hard to compete with because Dudes are not moving like this on no stage. I'm going to all of the shows. I'm being a student. I'm in the clubs. I'm in the street. I'm everywhere just to see. And learn and pull inspiration from somewhere. And I pulled a lot of inspiration from different places, but that was when I found it, like looking at those clash sting clashes and... Jammies and kill a majoro like that. A man from Saxon and all of that that was out here tip of Iri and all of that man like them dudes raised me”
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“A collective of things. It was the outfit. It was the jumping around. It was the kick in the foot. It was the fling in your hand. And the way you was coming through on the microphone and the flow patterns and the cleverness of the lyrics and the punchlines, it was all of these things. And it was mind-blowing to me because I wasn't seeing that same thing in hip hop. In hip-hop, you seeing dudes just walking around, you know, they might hold their crutch and act like they too cool to be that animated. I love that shit. I love kung fu movies. I love karate movies. So all of that shit. And the dancing up and the diss and that and the foot, this, that, I just took all of that shit. And I said, I'm going to turn this into what I'm going to do. Stages, and I think that If I mastered this shit and I could master my breathing.”
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“It definitely was that, and that came completely from Dance Hall influence. Are you familiar with like sting? So sting. Clashes that you used to happen from the 80s all the way down. The one thing that I saw in dance hall culture that I wasn't seeing in hip-hop. was the way when dance hall artists was getting busy and clashing in front of ten, fifteen thousand dollars thousand people in that sting audience. The energy that they had to have. Who make sure that they're portraying themselves in a way? Was just more than the lyrics. It was a complete showmanship that”
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“He was selling drugs in the street too. He decided he wanted to go back to the street and do that. He ain't want to be in a rap group no more. That's how room was made for Dinko to get in the group because we still felt like we needed to replace the third rapper. We got our three rap dudes now. It's me, Brown and Dinko. And then I said, yo, we need a DJ. Let me get my cousin. So Milo came and we ended up doing this show at the Apollo. He was hitting me with the I told you so that night. See, I tell ya, yo, y'all waste your time with this little idiot rapper boy shit. That's why I'm going to tell her if I come to work so you can learn some stability. Stop wasting your time with this rapper shit. It's how you talking to me. We still in the venue. We ain't even leave. He just beating me in the head, but just. Total disrespect. But”
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“So you come here now and you still don't know they struggle. They know though. They never gonna forget. And they obviously want the best for their babies, man. My father came to the Apollo to see us. And this is what made him even more sure about disrespecting me and disrespecting the rap shit. Me and my crew leaders of the new school. We had an opportunity to perform at Apollo at Amateur Night at the Apollo. And we get up there and we got booed. Badly boot one of the first times, you know, when me and Charlie Brown decided to form the group, the guy mystery that was with us originally, he got tired of the wait. There was no real light at the end of the tunnel if we was going to get an opportunity to get a record deal.”
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“That's primarily. Because that pain and that struggle, that suffering that they come from, that shit ain't this shit that we was raised in. You know me and you we obviously even if you was born there you wasn't You didn't spend your years there to experience the pain that they did.”
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“But I do love about my father as I got older is I understood. What he wanted, he just wanted to make sure I wasn't wasting my time. He built this company. He wanted to pass it down.”
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