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'Stillmatic' is the rebirth of 'Illmatic,' my first debut album to come out in 1994. 'Stillmatic' is me coming full circle in my career and with everything, and just bringing pure hip-hop back.

And I think a lot of us have fantasies of going back to where we're from, or when we do go back we're so nostalgic about it.

Barcelona is my home. It's impossible to say that I wouldn't return.

When you do some things in baseball in the city where you grow up and then you come back on a second opportunity, it's special.

I'm grateful to Fulham for allowing me to come back on loan, where it all kind of started for me in Europe.

It's always strange going back to Villa Park for me.

My whole family were from the East End, but they moved away when I was a child. They still cannot get their heads around the fact that I ran back to London as soon as I could, when I was 21.

'The Asylum Dance' was written after I'd moved back to Scotland and was a response to moving to my old home area of Fife.

If I have to return to Brazil, I'd like to play at Corinthians again. It represents a lot, I was born and raised there, my footballing career began there when I was nine, I've spent my entire childhood there.

Nice, the club where I started my career in 1983, want me to see out my playing days there.

We moved back to Britain for my secondary education.

There are lot memories to take home but the most emotional moment has been when I was touching down in New Delhi. Tears rolled down when I saw the red soil in Delhi from the plane.

I went back to 'The X Factor' for one reason, because I wanted to have that full circle. It's where I started, and I went back as a presenter. And that's what I wanted and I got that.

I actually got to go back to where I was born and perform there. I just brought my mom up onstage and was like, 'Look, here we are.'

The population of African people in the United States is far in excess of six small European nations. Where we are going? We have to go back as best we can to where slavery and colonialism took us from. And they took us from a concept of nation management and nation maintenance. We have been so long away from home we unfortunately have forgotten how we ruled states before the foreigners got there.

I think the "dawning of a new era" sounds a bit pretentious, and to me it's simply a step closer to my roots, and thus yes - I do feel liberated by this. I know many dislike this move, and I suspect that it is not really the dawning of a new era, but rather a move to a style which sells less records

I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.