Common Rates Oprah, Halloween, and Being Produced by Kanye West

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Playing the White House is,

is underrated, that's one of the greatest feelings

ever.

The President had a meeting for something called

My Brother's Keeper,

and it was like, ASAP Rocky, Rick Ross,

J. Cole, Myself, Alicia Keys,

Rap City,

man, and many more, Busta Rhymes,

all sitting in this room and I'm looking at a picture

of George Washington, The President is right here

next to me.

I'm sitting, I'm looking at that picture like,

man I know George Washington never woulda thought

he'd see this many

brothers in the White House, sitting there like this.

And, one of my comrades,

I don't wanna put him out there,

was in the bathroom taking the napkins.

You know, obviously, they have like...

The napkins that say The White House (chuckles),

and I was like, yeah, I understand, man.

But I don't know if they're watching us.

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Yeah, it's overrated.

I mean, I'm saying that now cause I don't

dress up as much, maybe I'm a little scrooge

on Halloween.

Man, my classic costume was,

was like,

believe it or not I,

I used to like KISS,

the rock group, so I think,

thinking I was trying to be like Paul Stanley.

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Oprah is underrated.

I was able to fly on her plane.

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Which was great, you know.

On her plane they were making some food,

the people who worked on the plane,

and the food, when I was eating it,

it wasn't like, the best,

it wasn't hooked up, really.

And Oprah took the plate, she said,

I can tell you don't really,

you know, something about it?

I was like, it's good, it's cool.

She took the plate and went back there

and hooked it up, cooked it up,

brought it back and it was good as hell.

It was really good, I was like,

so Oprah can definitely cook,

she can get down.

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Man, that's,

that's underrated.

When you work with him, he's going elevate your whole

everything you do as far as a artist.

On the song, The Corner, that I did with Kanye,

it was like...

I laid the rhyme down,

and...

He was like, I wanted to rap it again,

and he was like,

man, it's right man, keep that take,

and he came and was like,

man we should get The Last Poets on here.

So that was his idea, and then as soon as I laid

the rap,

he said, man,

I see that this video, you should be...

Out in Chicago, we should be going through Chicago,

and this is cold.

And it's like smoke and,

and man, do you understand, when we went to film that video,

it was like,

one of the coldest days I ever had in Chicago.

I was super sick.

But he's a genius.

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Being bald is,

it's overrated.

First, when I started losing my hair

it was the era of

cornrows.

Even though, I know they're back for some people,

but this is like...

Mid-90s.

I was trying to hold on to it.

My hair, it was going, so I didn't want to

rock the George Jefferson, if you know what that is,

that's like the

one little piece of hair right here and,

and hair around here.

It's almost like Bozo.

So,

I had to shave it all off.

And it was like,

after a while it's like, man, you wanna change

your hairstyle, but it's, you know,

there was nothing you can do when you're bald besides

just being like, I mean,

you could change your facial hair but,

it's not the same.

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Will Smith was one of the first

MCs that got into story telling and was able to do it

in a way that was, like,

that was, it was fun, and like,

kind of like feel good,

and we still liked it as the Hip-Hop community.

And, plus,

when I think of rappers,

like being good,

you gotta be able to rock a show, to rock a party,

I seen him rocking a party like,

and rocking show so I think, you know,

he's an underrated MC.

I haven't battled with him

as a rapper, but, you know, I wouldn't mind that,

I would love to.

And (laughs),

you know, I want to battle with him for roles too,

like, I wanna be, you know,

be in that battle with him also, because that dude is,

you know,

he's obviously one of the

biggest actors ever,

so I'll battle with him for that, for sure.

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