"I got to keep it tight like seams, Cause ain't no fiends Comin' in between me and my dreams, See what I mean, black?"
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"You don't wanna hear the truth, so I'ma lie to you...make it sound fly to you."
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"I wanna lie to you sometimes...but I can't. I wanna tell you that it's all good...but it ain't."
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"You've got to realize that the world's a test, You can only do your best and let Him do the rest. You've got your life, and got your health, So quit procrastinating and push it yourself."
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""Vell," said Mr. Weller, "Now I s'pose he'll want to call some witnesses to speak to his character, or p'raps to prove a alleybi. I've been a turnin' the bis'ness over in my mind, and he may make his-self easy, Sammy. I've got some friends as'll do either for him, but my adwice 'ud be this here-never mind the character, and stick to the alleybi. Nothing like a alleybi, Sammy, nothing.""
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"Rap is hardcore street music but there are women out there who can hang with the best male rappers. What holds us back is that girls tend to rap in these high, squeaky voices. It's irritating. You've gotta rap from the diaphragm."
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"I don't like the fact that there are so few women in rap."
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"The government hates rap. That's why they don't arrest anybody that kills rappers! Only the good ones are dead, man! Only the good ones: Biggie dead, Tupac dead, Vanilla Ice still alive! They don't fill out a police report. They don't even have a chalk line when it's a dead rapper, they just take a piss around the body."
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"The U.S government hates rap music"
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"If you wanna get away with murder, all you gotta do is shoot somebody in the head and put a demo tape in their pocket! 'This is a rap killing! Let's get outta here!'"
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"Some people are saying Bill O'Reilly exaggerated his war experience in the 1980s. People became suspicious because O'Reilly said he was injured in the East Coast/West Coast rap wars."
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"Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop."
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"I got a liberal education. A white guy, rapping as Bugs Bunny, on a quintuple-platinum album."
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"The rap game has to save itself. Everybody's saving it. People like Lil Wayne is saving it. He's bringing energy to it."
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"Your white tee, well to me, looks like a nightgown; Make your mama proud, take that thing two sizes down."
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"I live by the beat like you live check to check. If you don't move your feet then I don't eat, So we like neck to neck."
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"Gangsta rap was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. Gangsta rap didnt exist."
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"The much-maligned idle rich have received a bad rap: They have maintained their wealth while many There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it. Andrew Carnegie of the energetic rich, aggressive real estate operators, corporate acquirers, oil drillers, etc. have their fortunes disappear."
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"Commentating, illustrating, description giving, adjective expert, analyzing, surmising musical myth seeking people of the universe, this is yours."
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"I have done whole projects with Scoop Deville, I like to basically work with a single producer. I always just worked on a bunch of songs, and then put them together, whether it was an EP or another project. None of them were mixtapes where I was rapping over other peoples beats."
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