"I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up."
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"in the mornin' po-lice at my door Fresh adidas squeak across the bathroom floor Out the back window.. I make a escape Don't even get a chance to grab my old school tape"
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"If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut."
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"I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing."
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"Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place."
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"A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself."
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"It's just that when you heard hip-hop, no matter where you were, it was a culture that kind of made you want to try to be part of it. Whether you thought you were an artist, whether you thought you could be a DJ, whether you thought you could breakdance, or whether you thought you could rap. It was the kind of culture that had a lot of open doors."
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"...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire."
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"The truth is, everybody I've ever met who's successful is a workaholic."
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"Real men hold themselves accountable for stuff."
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"Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad."
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"Now everybody's bloggin'. I heard somebody say, "Blogging is just graffiti with punctuation." Everyone's an authority so there's nobody in power, 'cause everyone thinks they're in power."
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"If one person comes in and says, this is the way life should be, I think you're asking for chaos. I think you gotta let different people live different ways. It's a big world."
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"Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls."
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"I've been pulled out of my nice new car and laid out in the street by the police, interrogated and then have them get in the car and roll off leaving me lying in the street without even saying 'Get up.' The humiliation that they can put on a black man because they determine that you ain't got the money."
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"It's like they want to shut rappers down. They want to silence us. The Supreme Court says it's OK for a white man to burn a cross in public. But nobody wants a black man to write a record about a cop killer."
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"I'm a far cry from politically correct, because I don't really care what the political views are. I don't care what the people say. I'll say my opinion. That will always make you controversial."
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"With the invention of the blog and all this Internet stuff, everybody has an opinion; everybody has a voice. In fact, there was a time when the average person didn't have a voice so you had to pick an artist to speak for you."
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"The best way to compliment an emcee is to say his lyrics. That's how you say, "Hello.""
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"Who can protect themselves from betrayal? The day your brother wakes up and plans to do you dirty, there's no defense against that."
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