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I Think It's Harder To Make A Classic Now, Not Because Of What People Say, But Because Artists Now Are So Concerned With What People Say.

You Know The Block Was Ill As A Youngster Every Night It Was Like A, Cop Would Get Killed Body Found In The Dumpster

I Sip The Dom P Watching Gandhi Til I'm Charged - Writing In My Book Of Rhymes, All The Words Past The Margin

When I Made Illmatic, I Was Trying To Make The Perfect Album. It Comes From The Days Of Wild Style. I Was Trying To Make You Experience My Life. I Wanted You To Look At Hip-hop Differently. I Wanted You To Feel That Hip-hop Was Changing And Becoming Something More Real.

You A Slave To A Page In My Rhyme Book.