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Jay-Z's my favorite rapper, but why can't I aspire to be better than him?

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Wale
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: September 21
Musician
Rapper
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Washington
District of Columbia
Olubowale Victor Akintimehin
Olubowale Akintimehin
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I wanna meet the person who wrote the Burlington Coat Factory thing, but that's cool. I would love to understand it more, but everything is good.
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I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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I dated all these girls and ended up not liking them and thought to myself, 'What was it that all of them had in common?' They had too much time on their hands. Even though they were pretty, they lacked something. A woman could be less attractive but with ambition and drive, that's the most beautiful thing.
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I could have easily got T-Pain or anybody like that, but let me just get somebody very left. That'll wake them up. Gaga. She's never done a rap record before. Pay attention. It's a method to my madness.
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You never wanna see yourself there. Like, ever. I'd rather go to jail than see myself on Step Your Rap Game up because I take a lot of time with my stuff.
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It's something to be Great, It's nothing to be Famous
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Ambition is priceless, its something that's in your veins.
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Maybe they just like me because they like me, and they don't like me because they feel like they have to like me because they like this person or that person.
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I'm not really caught up with celebrity women. I think a regular girl that goes to school or works at a Complex or Spin or Blender or whatever, one of those magazines. She'd probably be flyer to me than the person she's writing about.
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Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you cant fake. Im not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.
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There's a lot of real unity - and a lot fake unity, sadly. I think a lot of people are going to get an opportunity to pursue greatness and pursue careers outside of D.C. Not everybody is going to make it. I think there's a connotation that there's a lack of rappers out there.
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I'm never satisfied, man. I'm Virgo. We overanalyze and we're never satisfied. So I'm gonna keep going 'til the wheels fall off.
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One thing Jay z told me that always sticks with me, is that, the album is never how you viewed it to be.
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All I’m saying is like, spoil me with your consistency Always remain the same you and you won’t have to worry about a different me
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I like David Beckham just because of his lifestyle. He don't ever need to score another goal again. How many times has he been on the cover of GQ?
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If I woke up tomorrow and didn't have a dolla, as long as I have my heart, I can get it all over.
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You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make.
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