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Jay-Z Rapper, Businessman
Rap

"Well I'm not just gon' go and do rap songs. I wanna touch, and maybe help, and see what I can do in these areas.' As I start looking around me, looking at things in ways that I can become helpful, starting at the first thing, water. Something as simple as water."

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Jay-Z Rapper, Businessman
Rap

"Cough up a lung where I'm from marcy son, aint nothin nice"

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Mike G Musician
Rap

"Now if I worry too much about all my have nots, I might not recognize just what I've got."

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Doc Brown Fictional Character
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"While I was rapping I was always involved in youth work - I ran music workshops for teenagers and young offenders all the time and also ran a charity for refugee kids for a time."

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Vanilla Ice Rapper
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""Ice" came in when my friends would say "cold as ice" -- if you could rap and battle people you'd say "Dude, that was ice cold." It had nothing to do with jewelry. Back then, it was like "Your cold, dawg." "Vanilla Ice -- that's cold.""

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Tupac Shakur Rapper, Actor, Activist
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"Everybody raps. We rap to make money. We do business. Ain't no other record company out there that sold as many records as we did."

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Tupac Shakur Rapper, Actor, Activist
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"How could you do me like that I took ya family in put some cash in ya pocket made you a man again"

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Snoop Dogg Rapper, Actor
Rap

"There's so much that I want to do. I feel like I'm the Magic Johnson of rap. You know, Magic was great on the basketball court, but he's bigger as a businessman."

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Rap

"If I'm boxing, I'll probably have rap on, or something a little more angry. If I'm lifting, maybe some rock 'n' roll. If I'm doing some cardio, something fast paced."

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Russell Simmons Entrepreneur, Music Producer
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"It's all about the work. Nothing is going to fall into your lap. If you want to be a lawyer, see yourself as a lawyer, go to the library and start learning the law. If you want to be a rapper, start rapping and get out there. Live your life as if you already are where you want to be."

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