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N.O.R.E. Details Recent Weight Loss
By: hiphopdx.comPosted On: 09/23/2014 9:24 A
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"I'm 37-years old," N.O.R.E. says. "I was signed at 17. You do the math, almost 20 years in the game. I just wanted to live longer and live for my kids."
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"I'm 37-years old," N.O.R.E. says. "I was signed at 17. You do the math, almost 20 years in the game. I just wanted to live longer and live for my kids."
Speaking with HipHopDX from the Sunset Strip Music Festival this past weekend, N.O.R.E. explained his recent weight loss and the inspiration to live a more healthy lifestyle as an artist nearly two decades into the industry.
“I just wanted to live longer,” he says in a clip that premiered in the DX Daily today (September 22). “It’s so many bad images of the Black man doing the wrong thing. I wanted to do the opposite of that and say, ‘You know what? I’m 37-years old. I don’t have an industry age. I know these other guys got industry ages. I’m 37-years old, I was signed at 17.’ You do the math, almost 20 years in the game. I just wanted to live longer and live for my kids. I just jog. I’m not gonna lie, if I take off my shirt I still look like spaghetti. I only jog but it brings joy in my life and it brings tranquility to my life. That’s all I do. I have fun with it. And I stopped smoking cigarettes too. I smoked for 20 years. I stopped smoking cigarettes.”
Last month, N.O.R.E. spoke with HipHopDX about his long-running friendship with Pharrell and previous collaborations like “SuperThug.”
"A lot of people this year with his success, a lot of people have tried to get me to flip on him,” he said. "They’ll say, ‘Why he ain’t invite you to the All-Star game?’ Idiot, because I was trapped in New York in the snow storm. You feel me? Pharrell, all he owes me is to be real with me. That’s it. He doesn’t owe me shit. I got a chance to witness him in the beginning and I enjoyed that. I enjoy that we still speak and I enjoy that he’s sitting there, waiting for me to say, ‘I’m ready to start my solo album.’ But I’m not ready. I’m not ready right this moment because I want to indulge in being a CEO. I want to indulge in putting somebody else before me.”
Over the weekend N.O.R.E. joined artists like RiFF RAFF, Onyx, DJ Quik, and Bun B in performing at the seventh-annual Sunset Strip Music Festival in Los Angeles. According to Murs, DASH Radio’s Independent Grind station will rebroadcast a stream of the MURS 316 Stage specifically.
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