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"You know, not to sound corny or nuthin', but I felt like a fighter comin' up, man. I felt like, you know, I'm being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this."
"You're not going to hit it every single time, and that's why, when I record an album, I do probably close to 50 songs. Each song I record has to get better. If it's not better than the last song that I made, it'll usually linger for a couple of months, and then it'll be put on the backburner, and then there'll be another song that I do, and then it often doesn't make it on the album."
"I haven't had a perfect career. I've put some albums out that, looking back, I'm not super proud of, but there's also a lot of stuff that I am very proud of."
"His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready To drop bombs, but he keeps on forgettin' What he wrote down, the whole crowd goes so loud He opens his mouth, but the words won't come out He's chokin', how, everybody's jokin' now The clocks run out, times up, over, blaow!"
"I was playing in the beginning, the mood all changed"
"I don't like to give the sob story: growing up in a single-parent home, never knew my father, my mother never worked, and when friends came over I'd hide the welfare cheese. Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid. I didn't go to school. I couldn't deal."
"All my life I've been dealing with my race because of where I grew up [Detroit] and being in the rap game. I'm at a boiling point...Anybody who pulls the race card is getting it right back in their face."
"That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it."
"I got a generation brainwashed to pop pills and smoke pot til they brains rot."
"Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me."
"It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a baby sitter."
"Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person."
"I'm standing on my Monopoly board that means I'm on top of my game"
"Money is what makes a man act funny."
"I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it."
"Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time."
"Believe it or not, I thank my mom for how she raised me in a neighborhood daily to jump and chase me. It only made me what I am today."
"I'm about as normal as Norman Bates."
"I’d rather die than you not be by my side."
"I don't think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little."