I guess something that you love to do, you gotta ease up off it and give it a little space, come back and be fresh to it.
Mos DefI don't care about what brand you are, I'm concerned what type of man you are, what your principles and standards are.
Mos DefIt's difficult to really be an artist nowadays. People are just on another page. You have a society that needs you to say something, but they don't want to give you the environment to be able to be just a functioning, happy, normal person. It's like, the industry is at odds with you, the society is at odds with you. You start to live in this very confined box where it's like, It's "me" and "them."
Mos DefRecord companies are not necessarily interested in you realizing your artistic dream. The bottom line is that they got to sell records.
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