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what my mother settled for.

I won't settle for

what my father settled for.

- 34th Street, Penn Station.

- It's like the price

of my range

Only nigga balls

entertaining on the A train

Feel it

It's NY to Calico

We don't give a f***

Brave niggas

let the Cali blow

You see your head

on your front porch

On your f***in' patio

What the f*** you wanted

for the ravio

Nigga named Cann

From NY, man

BK Brookdale Hospital

where I was born

But I felt the earth shake

- CaNNoN was always

a wordsmith.

He would rap,

but some words,

I wouldn't know

what the hell he said.

It's like he'd just

find a dictionary

and use the biggest words he

could find to rhyme or whatever.

But I could tell

he had crazy skill, you know,

just how he always hitting

the beat.

He had mad rhymes,

just mad rhymes.

- Lookin' for war

The nigga that seek

you shall find

You ain't hurt,

look at your lungs

And you weak and you blind

Y'all niggas is like charcoal

waiting for flames

Get outside of rhyming

and I'm taking my name

Load 20 in the clip

Keep one on the chain

- He had a little hard-core,

selling crack in Manhattan thing

going on, you know.

But that wasn't him,

and it was obvious

it wasn't him,

but he was still trying

to find himself.

I could tell he was searching.

- Different stakes

Became ironic

Do what y'all niggas

predicted

No, I got you redesigning

You infatuated

Besides, they say

they always hate our verse

- Princess, she had some rap.

Oh, man, it was so whack.

And she would kick

that same rhyme everywhere,

but never on the beat.

- Lyrically she telling virgins

F*** you,

said I'll pop your cherry

You got passion and sh*t

Y'all like alcoholics

trying to sober...

- So I had to try to find a way

to get them to a point

of seeing that they got to rap

about something else

and really knowing

why they should do it.

- What we need is more stars,

people who are individuals,

who will write their songs

about whatever is on their mind.

And knowing that people

don't have enough of that social

or political

or uplifting material,

because you make

another gangster record,

or another record about

how many cars you're gonna buy,

it's boring as f***,

and you all know that's boring.

- If you going through stuff

in your life,

that's what you need to put your music

or your art about.

That's what it got

to represent.

And that integrity is going to

come through in the music.

That's what people connect to.

That's soul music.

Every day you turn on the radio,

you got materialism,

you got misogyny,

you got-

- Money, hos, and clothes.

- Money, hos, and clothes.

Violence,

you know what I'm saying,

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