1. "It was hard to get Kweli to sit down and get back on some Reflection Eternal sh#t. There was a point where it was like, 'Man, I don't know if we're going to be able to do this."
  • —HI-TEK
  1. "I just want to make the music. For anybody that doesn't believe in me, your favorite rappers do."
  • —DRAKE
  1. "I think, in the beginning, I allowed myself to be told what I should look like, sound like, and now I'm at the point where I want my personality to always come across."
  • —NICKI MINAJ
  1. "Not writing your rhymes is fake... In the case of any of my female counterparts that didn't, I just said to myself, 'There's only so long that's gonna last.'"
  • —RAH DIGGA
  1. "[Breaking up] is a decision that we felt had to be made, for the greater good of our relationship. F#ck what y'all want—we always want to be family."
  • —BIG POOH, LITTLE BROTHER

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