50 CENT REPSONDS TO ALICIA KEYS‘ COMMENTS ABOUT “GANGSTA RAP” »
“I don’t like Alicia Keys no more…the same reason why I said that I don’t like Oprah Winfrey. I’m prejudiced. I don’t like people who don’t like me. If you don’t like the content that I write because of my experiences; I am being who I am when writing it. I fall into that ‘label’ as far as you considering artists creating gangsta music.
I don’t think that [her] classical shit is cool. I don’t give a fuck if you can classically play the piano. I haven’t been classically trained, because my upbringing, nobody put me in front of a piano at that time…I could fucking care less about the shit. So she don’t like the music that embodies the harsh realities because they’re not her realities. She hasn’t been subjected to the same things.”
NE-YO‘S “BORED” WITH URBAN MUSIC »
“There’s some stuff on there that sounds like something the Beatles might’ve done. There’s some stuff on there that sounds like something Billy Joel might’ve done. I can’t do just straight urban music no more, because to be completely honest with you, I’m a little bored with it. I’m just moving with what music excites me now.”
KHIA RANTING AND RAVING: THIS SHIT DOESN’T NEED TO BE TRANSCRIBED. JUST PEEP THE VIDEO, LOL! »
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