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I’ve experienced poverty and hardship. I’ve always been a positive person, but I know what hopelessness and helplessness look like.

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The importance of one’s legacy is being you. The legacy of never forgetting your roots.

I just wanted to let all my people know that I’m here to stay, and also let them know that the streets would always win.

It’s pretty important especially because I didn’t choose that path, it chose me.

One really can’t be comfortable in this industry, getting comfortable makes one slack and relax when you need to continually strive and work.

I have to uphold it as best as I could. It’s not even about pressure, because I’m living life and making music on my terms.

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.

Solomon

If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.

Leo Tolstoy

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

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