"I was a pretty bad person early in my life."
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"My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a working man, a quiet, blue-collar dude."
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"I've never been a cop hater. You know, when I was breaking the law, the cops were the opponent. I just thought I could outsmart them."
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"Anybody who speeds thinks they can outsmart the cops."
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"Truthfully, a weak rapper can hide behind a lot of production."
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"I think all music - not just rap - has fallen into this very diluted, delusional state, where everyone's singing about money and having cars, and having all this fun; when really, people are losing their homes."
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"I'm a big Brad Pitt fan. He's really talented. I think a lot of men are intimidated by him, saying he's just a pretty boy or whatever, but he is a bad man. I think he can act."
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"Being in the military just lets you know how helpless you are. You could train forever but you're still at the mercy of someone in the Pentagon, or somebody in the rear moving you around like a chess piece."
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"Yeah, it's legal in the United States. It's part of our Constitution. You know, the right to bear arms is because that's the last form of defense against tyranny. Not to hunt. It's to protect yourself from the police."
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"I'm afraid because some police are way out of control. My true feeling with police is this: If they do their job, there's no problem."
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"Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen."
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"You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap."
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"If you really listen to my music my music is more like stories than party records. I never made party records."
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"I always knew that I had to direct. That was something I'd wanted to do. Finally, I was just looking at the situation and I said, "I wanna document hip-hop, as an art form, seeing how a lot of people don't take it seriously.""
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"Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, "My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you.""
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"I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about."
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"If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie."
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"As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real."
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"Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating."
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"I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about."
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