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I'm a big R&B guy. I'm a huge R. Kelly fan.

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I made the decision that I was going to make rap music in, like, fourth grade, so it's been something I was saying for a long time.

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I think it's so dope that I'm here in Chicago and contributing to the music scene that's thriving. People are so happy Chicago's shining that everyone is willing to say 'I represent Chicago.' That wasn't always the case.

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Selling music doesn't make that much money.

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There was a point where I just did not care about my body.

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Both of my parents graduated from high school, both attended college, both have government jobs now. They've always been very adamant about me finishing high school and finishing college.

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I want to tell people to read 'The Prince' by Machiavelli - check that one out. It's just changed my attack so - I think so much more inwardly.

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I think the only thing that's really going to make a change in terms of how we feel as citizens in terms of safety and our relationship with the police is if we start seeing more federal indictments, arrests, and convictions of police officers.

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People don't want rap to be anything other than it is. But genres expand. My contributions, no matter how they sound, will always be rap, because they'll always be black.

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I don't really like meetings, I like recording and performing music. I need to set myself up for when the time does come that I need better distribution or just a bigger team behind me.

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Where he tells you exactly how he views the world - just very straight Kanye, honesty that definitely gets your creativity and strong opinions out on the floor. I think it helped me find myself.

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Mixtapes have always been a guerrilla-style means of moving music.

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There's so much positivity in the world and your day-to-day life that to go as far as to say that you hate something or you wish it didn't exist and all the bad things in the world happen to you and only you, it's a joke. It's not real to have that much hate in your heart.

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I just need to take better care of myself. I try to push it as far as I can.

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If I was to buy a suit, I'd probably go to Men's Wearhouse - because you're going to like the way you look; they guarantee it.

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Music can kind of make you one-dimensional. People see what's on the surface and what you rap about, and they make their decision on who you are from there.

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I don't see myself ever being in a position where I need to sign to a label.

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I was a mad, impressionable kid, and every skit from 'The College Dropout' was telling me how I didn't need school.

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For me, performing is the biggest part of being a rapper. There's nothing like the feeling of screaming your story to people.

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I don't really have control over my direct impression on people anymore. I used to be the person putting my CD in people's hands. But I'm kind of a mainstream artist now. Not by choice.

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The whole point of 'Acid Rap' was just to ask people a question: does the music business side of this dictate what type of project this is? If it's all original music and it's got this much emotion around it and it connects this way with this many people, is it a mixtape? What's an 'album' these days, anyways?

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