This award is the first award I've ever won in my entire life, and it means so much to me that it is for best hip-hop because that's what inspired me to move to America and pursue my dreams, and it's what helped me when I was a teenager to escape and to get through my life and to better times.

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There's a difference between being yourself and being your stereotype.

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Anyone's happier when they're not being verbally abused all day long.

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No one can break me down. I know my worth and its a beautiful thing.

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Really good things take time to grow. Foundation is not built over night.

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First things first, I'm da realest.

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Pledge allegiance to the struggle.

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I found it to be kind of ironic, because I’m white, therefore I’m appropriating culture, but then Eminem won it - who’s white and won it many times - and they didn’t seem to say anything about that. I suspect it was just because they dislike me.

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Once you go great, you never go good..You never go back, even if you could.

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I naturally want to be provocative.

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I realize that artists can become fatigued from touring the world over, but if it's your first major tour, you've got to buckle down and do it, said Sami Jarroush, a music blogger for Consequence of Sound. Short of suffering from an actual medical emergency, saying you're going to stop performing so you can take a vacation isn't exactly going to make you look good in the eyes of however many fans you have left.

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I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary.

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I'd known since about eleven that I wanted to live in America.

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For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.

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I love musk oil. There's something about musk that makes it memorable without being overpowering.

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Women in music have the bigger balls anyhow we endure much more harassment and critic.

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At the very worst, if I have a short-lived career, at least I could say I sparked a change - that I inspired some leniency in what people accept in hip-hop. And if I have a very long career and can be gyrating in a leotard at 35, that would be great.

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My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all women all the time.

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Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.

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Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed.

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I think its funny when people say a female rapper is too sexually charged, maybe the way I do it is a little more in your face but that's because I have to be aggressive and masculine to make it in the industry. If I talk about sex blatantly, when the mainstream media says it metaphorically every day, it's not okay? It's hypocritical.

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