"An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party."
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"Dog's just want to sniff an ass and eat some food."
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"Diet food is for lazy people."
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"I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative."
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"You know, you'd hide behind a Public Enemy or Ice Cube, or Bruce Springsteen, or U2, because they spoke for you. But 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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"I don't watch daytime television, I have a job, I work and, you know, I think daytime television is really for women."
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"When we say a rapper, a rapper can say a rhyme. But an MC can rock a party."
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"I think what's happenin' is that, with the overflow of music, it's been diluted. There was a time when people would go search out underground records. Now, underground means free, and people don't really care for it. So now artists tend to go more pop and look for the radio."
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"When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit."
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"The more you try to suppress us, the larger we get."
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"One of the things about powerful people is they have the ability to make it look easy."
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"Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong."
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"People think I'll kill you if you make a joke. I compare it to Clint Eastwood. I've only seen Clint Eastwood in movies. You think if you make a joke to Eastwood, he might shoot you."
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"Arnold Schwarzenegger blew away dozens of cops as the Terminator. But I don't hear anybody complaining about that."
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"I'm pretty open book, I'm also the kind of person that will say, 'That's none of your business,' too."
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"I think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want it more connected to the streets and the grime and the roughness of the streets. They don't want the fluff."
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"What I'm trying to tell people is that police brutality in the 'hood is nothing new. And the thing is that whether this guy, the cop killer in my song, is real or not, believe it, there are people at that point."
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"If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it."
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"AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to you. It can happen to you and it's deadly serious."
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"You could be a Green Beret and a kid could jump out from behind a building and hit you with a rock. No matter how tough you become in the military, there's a way to die: there's nothing safe about it."
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