In hip-hop, what you have is you have a lot of formulaic-type bands or rappers that come up. They saw something on the radio, and they want to mimic that formula. And that's just boring. I don't wanna record something just to make money; I want to record something to enjoy it and have fun because I'm a music lover.


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SIR SARVEPALLI RADHAKRISHNAN
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SIR JOHN DENHAM
War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtu...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
The emotional security and political stability in this country entitle us to be a nuclear power.
SIR RONALD MASON
Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.
SIR HUGH WALPOLE
If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to tho...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
SIR ISAAC NEWTON
The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much further.
SIR HENEAGE OGILVIE
Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man. Excellence in any art or profe...
SIR THEODORE MARTIN
A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
SIR RICHARD STEELE
That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.
SIR RICHARD STEELE
There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of rec...
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE
Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
SIR JOHN MORTIMER
Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have ever...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER
Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more ...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK
Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure ...
SIR THOMAS MALORY
Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, an...
SIR THOMAS MALORY
If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry ...
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS
The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.
SIR HENRY WOTTON
There's more of yourself in a book than a play. that's why we know all about Dickens and not much a...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
SIR JOHN MORTIMER
Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compel...
SIR ISAAC NEWTON
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who ...
SIR PEREGRINE WORSTHORNE
Choose an author as you choose a friend.
SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which ...
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to hav...
SIR RICHARD STEELE
The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven...
SIR RICHARD STEELE
My true-love hath my heart, and I have his,
By just exchange, one for the other given:
I hold ...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.
SIR RICHARD STEELE
Come he slow or come he fast. It is but death who comes at last.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Death -- the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Is death the last step? No, it is the final awakening.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
In Examinations those who do now wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
I am not young enough to know everything.
SIR J.M. BARRIE
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.
SIR ARTHUR HELPS
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
For a mans house is his castle, & domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium; for where shall a ma...
SIR EDWARD COKE
It is therefore necessary that memorable things should be committed to writing, and not wholly betak...
SIR EDWARD COKE
There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent both for Prince and ...
SIR EDWARD COKE
The Chinese said of themselves several thousand years ago: China is a sea that salts all the waters ...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
In War: ResolutionIn Defeat: DefianceIn Victory: MagnanimityIn Peace: Good Will
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is ...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: I have nothing to offe...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large ma...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia i...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma;...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL