Seriously
I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.
Don't take things too seriously, and just chill.
I take work very seriously and telling the truth in my job and professionalism.
Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
To me, art and storytelling serve primal, spiritual functions in my daily life. Whether I'm telling a bedtime story to my kids or trying to mount a movie or write a short story or a novel, I take it very seriously.
However, people need to understand that it ain't that deep to try and convince people of what your persona is. You are who you are, and what you are will show in time. What you aren't can be hidden, but eventually it will come to light. Long story short: rappers should never take themselves too seriously.
There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good.
I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.