Ozone Awards 2007 special edition

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REASONS WHY I’M THE MAN

As told to N. Ali Early // Photo by Ty Watkins

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I’m Willing To Go All Out In the movie Scarface, he was willing to go out and they had to respect it. Even though they took him out they had to respect it. Like, “Damn! We didn’t just take him. He went out with a bang!”

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I Speak Highly Of My Peers Without allies you can’t be a king. You can be a don, but you can’t be a boss.

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I Realize My Responsibility If you’ve got people who follow you, it comes with responsibility. If you’re not a supreme leader or someone who understands what it is to be a leader, it doesn’t make a difference. You’ll never be seen.

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I Trust God You gotta keep God close at all times and if you do things that may not be right, you gotta pray about it and ask his forgiveness.

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I Am The Streets I really walk a lot of what these rappers talk about. I lived it and I did it in two cities.

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I Love What I Do It’s not something I just like to do, like a broad… I’d get tired of her.

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I Take The Bitter With The Sweet You gotta take a loss to get your ball on, and I’m committed to my success.

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I’m Focused On The Finish Line Whatever I gotta do to get there within my means, I’ma do, and that means inside and outside of the studio.

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I Stand Behind My Word I never over-obligate myself to people or tell people I’ma do something I know I can’t do.

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Paid The Cost To Be The Boss From the grind, to the initial hood, to the good life, I’ve done everything under the sun to get money. At the same time even from a hood perspective you don’t just come in the hood and just be the man. NOMINATED FOR PATIENTLY WAITING CALIFORNIA It take grind and it take time to get the respect of other hood niggas.

dollar 90 // OZONE MAG


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