Paul Cantor
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Couple notes on the Knicks.
"Knicks vs. Pacers Playoffs — Even in Loss, New York Team Gave Fans Life"
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J. Cole back means we will hear some rapping on beat for the first time in three years.
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A few months ago, a friend asked me to come see him in the hospital. He was unsure of his future and wanted someone to help tell his story. I had no idea that in the process, I'd watch him die. Here is the story of Combat Jack.
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A couple years ago, I met someone unlike anyone I had ever known. Over time, we had many deep conversations. About life, music and what make us who we are. "K.O.D." is his new album, and this is the story of J. Cole
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There's a Jay-Z lyric for literally every situation you might encounter.
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A million episodes of MTV Cribs and the only one anyone remembers is the episode with Redman, because his crib looked something everyone lives in. A lesson in there.
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After 16 long years and nearly a decade of conspiracy theories surrounding Guru's death, we are finally getting a new Gang Starr album. This is the story of how one of hip-hop's most iconic duos died and came back to life.
Read:
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Happy Birthday to the legend Combat Jack. They'll never do it like he did.
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Cole has the number one album in the country, hasn't done an interview in years. And when I went to do this story, many publications told me to go fuck myself.
Think on that.
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I envy Lil Wayne's ability to completely not know what the fuck has been happening, or who anyone is, for the last ten years.
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There's a difference between being busy and doing something. It's not the action that counts, but whether the action actually matters.
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New York has to be the only place where just getting to work in the morning feels like going to war.
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Being freelance at anything is difficult. If you even made a dime, you should be proud of yourself.
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The fact that this race is even competitive shows you how fucking dumb this country is.
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Imagine the entire archives of the The Source and XXL being available online.
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In 20 years I'm gonna be talking to my kid about Verzus during Quarantine like it was Woodstock
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I saw the greatest minds of my generation reduced to Instagram influencers, peddling aspirational nonsense under staged photographs in borrowed clothes and rented locations, selling fake lifestyle to mindless people who don't know any better.
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Too much focus on numbers these days. Views. Streams. Retweets. Faves.
Not enough focus on -- is this good?
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Damn this blew up. While you're here...
Just a reminder: check on someone you love today.
Even if it's just yourself.
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If you had a CD burner in 1999 you were automatically the coolest kid in school
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"You Rock My World" is low key a top 5 Michael Jackson song.
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The thing about colon cancer — if you can make it 4 years, that's unbelievable. Getting that diagnosis might as well be like receiving a death sentence. To think about what Chadwick Boseman did while battling it, sheesh. The strength, dedication. He was a hero. On screen and off.
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Instead of that Kanye bullshit you're focusing on, you should be reading this piece on J. Cole, which is the exact opposite.
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I reserve real, honest praise for few, but this guy
@JColeNC
is moving on a whole different level right now.
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this didn't age well.
Must confess, outside of any artists I'm working with, Jay Electronica is the act I'm most excited about moving into 2010
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The trick is to believe in your talent even when nobody else does.
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Always read your writing out loud. If it doesnt sound like music, re-write it.
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Better to get booed for doing what's right than cheered for not doing shit.
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If your people don't believe in your ideas, get new people.
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Supreme Clientele, twenty year anniversary on the 8th. Wow. Will anyone do anything, probably not. Pitched an idea to a few companies a while back and was told "nobody cares about this album" lol.
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I feel like theres a rolling loud festival every 12 hours now
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There should be more hip-hop documentaries. There's never been a genre of music so big with fewer documentaries. It's like when the money people fund music documentaries they go, hey, what we got this season? Nothing? Fuck it, let's just do another one on the Beatles.
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You have to believe in your talent even when nobody else does.
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Kanye is gonna make kids line up at the therapist the way they line up for sneakers.
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Redman doesn't get mentioned enough. Top 10 all time, definitely.
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For creative folks, the problem these days is that when you're doing big projects, they can take a lot of time, sometimes years. It looks like you're not active, even though you're killing yourself to realize a vision. You're almost better off just making tiktoks.
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You needed leaked audio to know Ronald Reagan was racist? 🤔
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Imagine a music industry pumping millions of dollars into artists like Erykah Badu and Jill Scott.
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But wait. Here's
@JColeNC
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@Scott_Lazer
on "A.T.M.," Cole directing
@KevinHart4real
in "Kevin's Heart" and more:
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What I love about New York is that as long as your rent is paid, you can be anyone and do anything. Well, I guess you need a Metrocard too. And money for food. Then there's drinks. Plus you have to dress well. Okay you need to be a millionaire. But you get what I'm saying.
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Time away from computers, phones, social media and even other people is important. Sometimes it's the only way to get your own thoughts back.
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rappers like "I don't write my lyrics down" and I'm like "uhh, yeah, I can tell."
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50 Cent already battled Ja Rule and destroyed him. This actually happened in real life, so there's no need to re-live it.
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After the Rza v Premier battle tonight, should I drop the full 6 hour interview with Premier that didn't make it into the New York Times piece a few months back 🤔🤔🤔
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There is no career "path" to a creative life. You just do it, and the act of doing it is the path itself.
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the golden age of music streaming coincides with the dark age of music journalism. weird.
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You never know who is being affected by your work. You do it and you don't know, but it could be very important to someone, and so you do it some more.
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People used to look for talent. Now they look for numbers on a screen and go "this must mean they're talented."
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If you've gotten anything done the last few weeks, consider that a victory.
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CD's are the new vinyl. You want rare music for cheap, that's where you'll find it. People have turned vinyl into too much of a fashion item.
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Nobody supports till they see other people supporting. Monkey see, monkey do.
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Canceling a gym membership is harder than getting into Harvard.
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There are people in jail right now for selling 5 dollars worth of weed who were punished longer and harder than someone who started a civil war. Unbelievable.
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Record producers always take pictures in front of these big ass mixing boards knowing damn well everything these days is coming out of a little laptop.
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The new Gang Starr album is out today. If you get a chance, check out the story I wrote about the 16 years it took to make it happen.
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10 years ago today I woke up, I was 26, so overweight and tired I could barely get out of bed. Said hello to 36 this morning and can say it's been a decade of healthy eating and active living, and I couldn't be happier about that.
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So many people get their self worth from their job, their title, what it is that they do. And are still unhappy. It's only when you realize that worth, true worth, comes from action, and purpose, and how you exist in this world -- that's when the truest happiness comes.
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what you see as an overnight success is usually 10-15 years of hard work that went unrecognized.
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It's sad how a person's entire life gets reduced to a number on a screen, lumped in with thousands of other lives and eventual deaths, and used to make a point about how a situation is "not that bad," just so the world can open up and everyone can get back on the hamster wheel.
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If you enjoy someone's work, let them know today, because they might not be here tomorrow.
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Nobody talks anymore. We just send each other fire emojis and leave it at that.
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you're allowed to change your opinion from one day to the next, it's called thinking.
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I admire artists who don't do interviews or even like talking about their work. Too much yackety-yack. The art is the art.
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This Kanye interview making me feel even worse about all the stuff cut out of the Cole article.
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It's sad when you have written something great for a website that no longer exists. We tend to think the internet is forever but in reality very little of it is.
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Telling people to get help is not helpful. You know what's helpful, helping.
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Royce. Phonte. Killer Mike. Even Kanye and Jay-Z.
Along with some of other great writers, I penned some thoughts about a few of my favorite artists in this piece.
Check it out:
"Who’s Having the Best Rap Career After 40?”
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I guess I wrote a little thing about Drake, J. Cole and Kendrick.
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Ready for an office job again. Wanna do "after work drinks" and get excited about a new coffee machine.
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The hardest people i know are also the most loving. I don't think it's a coincidence. You have to know real pain to understand what it really means to love.
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Daughter turns 2 today. Yesterday when I asked her if she wanted to read a book, she smiled and said: "I want to write a book." 🤯❤🥰
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There are people who are talented and there are people who are untalented but then there are people who do it and people who don't do it and you'd be surprised how little talent has to do with that.
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I won't hold you, I got reel to reels of 50 Cent hooks in my closet he did for other people when he was on Trackmasters. These references exist.
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The best promotion is still word of mouth. Someone telling someone else -- "Check this out."
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The fact that any music you can think of, you can open an app right now and it'll play, magically, as if beaming down from the heavens above, is a modern marvel that is not fully appreciated.
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Everyone I know who failed, it's cause they bailed out early. Found something else to do. Maybe a job. Maybe a family. Maybe to just sit on their couch. The key is, through the ups and downs, to stay in it.
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All ambitious people feel guilty when they're not working. Not a fear of missing out, but a fear of falling behind.
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Drove from one end of Manhattan to the other today in 2 minutes. It was something I never thought I'd experience in my life, and probably never will again.
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There is no more difficult work than the work it takes to work on yourself.
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Person who invented chocolate milk was definitely high as shit.
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