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The song, 'Life is Better,' is about hip-hop. It's about my love for hip-hop. And, you know, I go through all the artists from the beginning to the end, you know. And, well, not to the end, but since the beginning to now, you know.

About Artists Beginning Better
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I'm kind of a pop culture stew, you know.

Culture Kind Know Pop
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In 1999, I just came out of putting out the song 'Vivrant Thing' and 'Breathe and Stop' off the 'Amplified' album. Clive Davis signed me to Arista.

Album Amplified Breathe Came
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It's called 'I Wanna Thank You,' and I'm encouraging everybody out there to blog, Tweet, Facebook, anything about it. Let's sign a petition. The petition is called 'Busta Rhymes Make 'I Wanna Thank You' Your First Single.'

About Anything Blog Encouraging
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I feel like Obama in a way. His idea that hope means not shrinking from a fight; it's the courage to reach for something. My music is that. Those are principles I try to embody.

Courage Embody Feel Fight
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I shot a movie with Nicole Kidman that I got cut out of - it was crap anyways.

Crap Cut Got Movie
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One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations.
Expectations Industry Manage Me
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For people who love Tribe, I'm the defector. They say, 'You should get back with Ali to do the beats.' But a lot of people don't realize I did all the music in Tribe. In the first three albums, I did all the beats!

Albums Ali Back Beats
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I read the Koran and it appealed to me. At the time I was agnostic and it really breathed spiritually back into me. For me it's really a cushion; it's cool, I'm cool with it.

Agnostic Appealed Back Breathed
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I definitely move to the beat of my own drummer and man, he's not playing something anyone has heard before. It's pretty cool, though. Pretty cool.

Anyone Beat Before Cool
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For everybody out there, in any locality, your dreams are very valid

Dreams Very Valid Everybody
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Don’t pray for what you can’t handle.

Handle Pray You
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Don’t you hate when a song has been out for a minute and it’s mad dope but you are the last to get on it

Song Minute Dope Mad
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God can change your story at any gadamn time. Don't give up
God Change Story Don’t give up
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I just love seeing people do well in life

Love People Do well Life
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You need God all the time but you see when you are winning, That’s when you need God the most

Need God Time Winning Most
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Our job as producers is to make the music sound as good as possible.

Possible Good Sound Music
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If you put a demo on the net and people say it was the finished version then they're going to say it sucks. I really hate that.

Demo Finished Going Hate
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I'm not the type of person to live in fear. I think positively.

Fear Live Person Positively
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I'm totally not a nostalgic person. I always look to the future and as much as I've enjoyed the ride until now and the different phases, I'm more excited about the next music.

Different Enjoyed Excited Future
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I want to party in space because I make alien music.

Alien Music Party Space
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It's nice because success has allowed me to have a blast on stage, to be in the studio with amazing people, but I find it all a bit bizarre.

Bizarre Amazing Bit Studio
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So dance music is now pop music. So now, as a dance producer, what do I have to do? So I'm starting to do alien music, because pop is not pop anymore; we need to go alien to be independent.

Alien Anymore Music Dance
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My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we're the laptop generation.

Computer Everybody Generation Laptop
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I don't do this for the money, I don't do it for record sales, I don't really care about that, I just want to make beats.

Beats Money Care Record
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If I had to play only for people who liked the music because they heard it on the radio, it wouldn't make me happy. That's why I'm working so hard to have, yes, a profile as an artist, but also a profile as a DJ.

Play Profile Radio Artist
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All the big artists I talk to say that they are trapped in a formula and they are looking for the music of tomorrow.

Artists Big Formula Music
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I mix up all styles on my albums because that is what music is about now.

Albums Mix Music Styles
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The more melodies and chord changes, the less good it is for the clubs, but the better it is for radio, because it makes it really emotional.

Better Chord Clubs Emotional
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Traveling all around the world, music sounds different.

Around Different Music Sounds
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There's many different genres, and when you see R&B and pop and house, as well as electronic, come together, that's the reality of what music is.

Come Different Electronic Genres
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In anything you do, try to always push your limits.

Anything You do Push Your limits
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Music is truly spiritual and amazing.

Music Truly spiritual Amazing
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Greatness can never be rushed! Change is only constant!

Greatness Rushed Change Constant
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As a DJ, it’s good to have an education. Education is the key that would take you places.

Good Have Education Key
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Education is a big key, some people might not think it is but it helps you with the business side of the game.

Education Key People Helps
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Don’t be fooled by what you see, don’t think it’s all rosy. Just keep your head straight.
Be fooled Think All rosy Head straight
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Figure out what you’re most passionate about in life and what you’re good at. And the mixture between those two and then you should give it your all, all the time.

Figure out Most passionate In life Good at
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If there is love in this life, we’re unstoppable.

Is love This life Unstoppable
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Love is where the heart is.

Love Where Heart is
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Your whole life has been building up to this moment. Your whole life has been building up to this day. Every dream that moved you, every scar improved you, every voice around you tells you to believe.

Whole life Building up This moment Building up
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Dance music is like a virus: it has affected so many different genres.

Dance music A virus Has affected Different genres
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some people get inspired by a feeling, but I’m mostly inspired by melodies.

Some people Get inspired A feeling By melodies
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I hope in general that my music allows somebody to follow what they really like doing.

I hope My music Allows somebody Like doing
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We put stereotypes on ourselves. Everybody does that. But I think it's just a little harder for black kids to just be who they are.

Put stereotypes Everybody Does that Little harder
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When anybody pays you to be creative, you're very lucky.

When anybody Pays you Be creative Very lucky
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Black culture is a fight. We want to hold on to what we are, but sometimes the things that we are can be totally negative. You have to think: can't we try something new and not be seen as suspect?

Black culture A fight Hold on Sometimes
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I personally don't believe people really grow. They just learn stuff when they were a kid, and hold on to it, and that affects every relationship they have.

Believe people Really grow Learn stuff A kid
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It seems the more I try to connect with the world, I am feeling more alone than I ever have felt before.

To connect The world Feeling more Alone
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Careers very rarely are a waste of time; jobs usually are.

Careers Rarely Waste Time
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