“Growing up, we didn’t think we could be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. We were told that hip-hop was a fad,” rapper said
Shout out to Dame, I know we don’t see eye to eye, but I can never erase your accomplishments. And I appreciate you and I thank you for that. Shout out to Biggs. He was one of the most honorable people I’ve ever met and we’ve created something that will probably never be duplicated. I appreciate you guys. Thank you for my journey. Thank you. Thank you [for your] contribution to this journey.and we came out and we sold about no copies. We thought we made the greatest thing of all time.
And then KRS-One, he was a teacher. And at the time. it wasn’t even cool to be smart. Like if you had a book, they’d be like, “Look at this n-gga with a book!” He made it cool for us to have books and be smart. So I could carry my little green notebook that my mom bought me, I could carry it around the projects because of KRS-One. Rakim, Rakim gave us knowledge itself. He had a big vast vocabulary and never cursed.
And we didn’t have our fathers around. So not only would I have to be an orphan, I had to be Daddy Warbucks, too. So I made a song called “Hard Knock Life.” Right. And that set the course of what I would do for the rest of my career. …
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