"There is no singing anymore, everything is yelling and shouting and rapping and that is real boring to a guy like me."
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"You know it ain't no stoppin' All the doggs I'm droppin' It's Friday night, so everything is poppin."
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"Somehow the rap game remind me of the crack game"
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"My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely."
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"Let me break it down for you again, You know I only say it because I'm truly genuine: Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem."
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"Music was just played all around me, and I couldn't run from it. My pops, he never learned to sing, but he'd have his little drink on the side, and he'd put on the best of his hits - gangster rap or oldies - and he'd sing all day on his mic plugged up to the wall set-up. It's a trip. I've just seen that my whole life, so I've always just had a love for music. By the time I was 13, I really just jumped in it. And it's something I took on to have as a hobby."
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"The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!"
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"They say that love is powerful as cough syrup and Styrofoam. All I know is I fell asleep and woke up in that Monte Carlo With the ugly Kardashian... Lamar, oh, sorry. Yo, we done both set the bar low."
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"Ain't no love lost, cause there was never none there."
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"Educated: no. Stupid: yes. And when I say "stupid," I mean stupid fresh."
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"The most popular rap artists aren't supposed to be rapping about being broke."
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"The line between playing to win and sin is thin, But I walk it with grace and I talk it with taste. I am that raw, simply put, and I rest my case."
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"Not only the brothers on the street but the middle class brothers are also identifying with the gangster rappers because of the extent to which this music circulates. It becomes possible for the - not only the young middle class men, but it becomes possible for young middle class white men and young men of other racial communities to identify with the misogyny of gangster rap."
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"You download it for free, we get charged back for it. I know you're saying, "They won't know, they won't miss it, Besides, I ain't a thief, they won't pay me a visit." So, if I come to your job, take your corn on the cob, And take a couple kernels off it, that would be alright with you?"
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"I'm not complicated at all. I say raps that your two-year-old son can learn."
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"I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I wanted something different, and I wanted to become the best businessman in the game. I wanted to learn how to master the business like I mastered the rap."
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"Y'all mythological niggas is comical, The astronomical is comin' thru like tha flu bombin' you... And embalmin' in your crew, too. With the musical, mystical, magical, you know how I do."
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"Wanna move out the hood and defeat that cancer I ask how she stay on her feet like dancers How she keep on adding paint to a life-size canvas."
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"If I die today, it'd be a holiday"
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"Which is the other reason hip-hop is controversial: People don't bother trying to get it. The problem isn't in the rap or the rapper or the culture. The problem is that so many people don't even know how to listen to the music."
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