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Here's the problem: Profiteers haunt America, and for everything we try to control, someone's going to profit from it, more than you control it.

I'm a fan of X-men.

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'Transformers' inspired me as a kid.

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If you are a chef, no matter how good a chef you are, it's not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking for others - it's the same with music.

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I don't want to be on stage when I'm 57, talking about... 'Let's Get It Started.'

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Crime and violence are the easiest emotions to reenact.

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I've been truly protected by my uncles.

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America has to be not just an idea but a living, breathing thing.

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It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.

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If you live in a good neighborhood, you drive home and there's a bank. There's grocery stores and big houses - but no motels. What that tells you psychologically is you protect your money and buy good things for your family to eat in your nice big house.

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Hip-hop was fast, originally. It was always fast music.

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I can't be quiet, as that's when I notice the ringing in my ears.

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We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code.

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If my mind's not trying to fix something or create something, I don't know what to do. It just throws me off.

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Here's the problem: Profiteers haunt America, and for everything we try to control, someone's going to profit from it, more than you control it.

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Tom Jones is like igloo-cool.

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When you're a corporation, you're going to stick with what works. That's why every McDonald's is the same.

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If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family's life but change your ghetto's life, make your ghetto a good neighbourhood, learn science; try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.

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The music industry isn't converging toward dance music. Dance music is dance music. It's been around since disco - and way before disco. But there's different versions of dance music.

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I don't follow waves or trends or emotions.

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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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Now that Obama's president, it changes inner-city youths. They can now not just dream to be Lil Waynes and 50 Cents, but they can now dream to be Obamas.

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I read Twitter all the time, even though I rarely tweet.

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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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You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology.

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There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.

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Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting.

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I'd like to see Apple and Dell factories be brought to the inner cities; in every project in America, there's some factory there, and it's abandoned, and I'd like to see those factories open and bring jobs to America.

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My favorite game is Madden. That's it. I'm a Madden addict. I go at it.

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We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming, we don't control that. If politicians want a war we don't control that. Acts of terrorism, we can't control them.

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I don't know what silence sounds like anymore.

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I don't want to hope anymore. I don't think we should hope anymore. We hoped enough. Now we have to do. We all have to do now.

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I don't want to preach to people.

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When someone is denying what they are, then that's when things start to spiral down.

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You can get your money and you put it in the bank, or you can put it in the youth. You can put it in our future.

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My mom's never been married. I've never even seen my mom kiss a dude.

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I am hip-hop!

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