"As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it."
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"A lot of people play single to work some angle. I'm always about keeping it real. If that's how I'm living, that's how I'm living."
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"It's not about being mad at everything. It's about being really mad at the right things."
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"Military is a great place for a jock. That's the first thing they test you, they test you physically. If you can run, if you can do the pushups, it's not as hard a transition. If you can't do that, you're going to have a problem because they're going to really work it out of you or work it into you."
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"I was a full-blown street cat. I was trying to hustle my way. I thought I was going to hustle my way to a mansion or something. I was doing pretty good, but I didn't realize that there was no way to win that game."
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"I'm like a monkey. You don't let go of one branch until you get a hold of the other."
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"You can't just sing the song and live another life, you know. It's really difficult now because that's not what it's about. It's pop and pop just says that we could be actors. We could sing about stuff and not believe in it. It could be absolutely fraudulent and it doesn't really matter."
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"If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping."
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"I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them."
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"You've got the Wall Street situation, the sub-prime situation. You've got a black president. We've got wars. We've got unemployment. But the music doesn't reflect that. And I challenge anybody to show me a music that's on the radio that reflects that."
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"I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops. The cops are just doing what they're told to do."
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"Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things."
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"The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny."
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"Jay-Z is like a rap-savant, he doesn't have to write the rhymes down, he can create complex raps in his head. I mean he does memorize it, he just doesn't write it down on paper. He doesn't freestyle onto the track, it's all thought out."
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"The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it."
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"When you hit the wall, it's how fast you come back."
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"When I got a chance to rap, I just busted my ass. When I got a chance to act, I busted my ass. Anytime I get a chance. I'm not wasting time. I won't do it if I'm not doing it 110 percent. You've got to work hard if you want to play hard. I like to play, but I know I gotta bust my ass."
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"With acting, you have to take it seriously because the other actors are putting in a lot of effort - and if you say, 'I'm just bullshitting here', it's like dissing 'em."
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"When the President (of the United States) mentions your name in anger, you know the sh*t has hit the fan!"
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"I'm just disillusioned with the hip-hop sound right now. It's too materialistic. You know, I'm the kind of guy ... I can't do that. If you track my movement, you'll never see a picture of me with any girl that wasn't mine, or my own car. My jewelry, my clothes. What kind of gangsta rapper has a stylist? A stylist?!"
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