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You have to understand the vehicle, the form that allows you to do what you do, and why that is.

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Pharoahe Monch
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: October 31
Composer
Rapper
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Queens
New York
Troy Donald Jamerson
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Man, I would demand that artist come to the table with better variety. I would demand that musicians know music history, not just Hip-Hop, so that we could understand. The better your 'listening ear' is, the better your music will be.
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My mic is a Magnum. See me and this chick, we go back like Cro-Magnon. Man...we did it in the back of your Magnum I said, 'Put them Lifestyles back, give me the Magnums.'
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There's a need for pop. There's a need for radio. There's also a need to understand the brilliance and the depth of jazz and soul - and what hip-hop can be at its most brilliant and what hip-hop can be at its most simplistic.
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There are situations where I'm uncomfortable saying, I'm a hip-hop artist. In some circles, the response is like, Oh, OK, so... you have whores and your ties are shiny?
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Once I slapped a rapper with mace, Then I spit acid in his face, after he rinsed his eyes, no wait... I actually grew five times my size, grabbed Ma$e by the thigh and slapped a rapper with him.
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Love and hate, black and white, Right or wrong, who is right? Some smoke joints to anoint their brain To the vanishing point...so they won't go insane.
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There needs to be someone who can lead you in the right direction.
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If you holding up the wall then you missing the point
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Squeeze 7cc's so I could see the seven seas, And CC all my friends so they could see what I was seeing... But what they saw was a despicable human being So, I guess they just wasn't seeing what I was seeing.
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I have a dream: One day we will get to the promised land. Then the president will be me, The government will be Shabaam, Mos and Kweli...that's it! All wackness is now banned.
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When new artists come out and they're not being cosigned or some company doesn't have a stake in it, or someone's not getting paid under the table to produce the whole record or bring it to video, the artist really suffers.
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The battle thing is very important in hip-hop, but at the same time, I want to sit down and have a beer and listen to Rakim.
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Truth had me up against the ropes And semi-conscious without no boxing skills.
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Unless somebody who's already eleven thousand times platinum is like, We're ushering this project in, it's not really gonna pop commercially.
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I'm doing what's in my heart at the time.
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New York City gritty committee pity the fool that act shitty in the midst of the calm, the witty.
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