"Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing."
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"Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn't say I lived in a ghetto, I'd say I lived in the 'hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now."
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"My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it."
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"I just remembered that I'm absent minded... wait, I mean I lost my mind, I can't find it."
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"Rap will never be the same as before"
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"Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid."
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"My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him."
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"Honestly, I never really put the mic down."
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"Youre still beautiful to me, cause youre my mom."
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"When I do something I have to do it all the way - that goes for music, with a high-hat, a snare drum, a rhyme, everything. I have to push it to the extreme. That's how I realized I have addictive behavior. Somebody told me this once, that the thing that makes me bad is the same thing that makes me good at other things."
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"Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it."
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"I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record."
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"My earliest memory was raping the babysitter when I was 5...she was 15."
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"When you feel like you've had it up to here, and you're mad enough to scream, but you're sad enough to tear, that's rock bottom."
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"Despite what I say in my songs, its never okay for a man to put his hands on a female."
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"A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'"
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"Touring is hard on the body."
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"They call me Superman, leap tall hoes in a single bound."
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"If I said in one of my songs that my English teacher wanted to have sex with me in junior high, all I'm saying, is that I'm not gay, you know? People confuse the lyrics for me speaking my mind. I don't agree with that lifestyle, but if that lifestyle is for you, then it's your business."
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"And to the rest of the world God gave you shoes to fit you So put 'em on and wear 'em Be yourself man, be proud of who you are Even if it sounds corny Don't ever let anyone tell you you ain't beautiful"
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