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"Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love."
"Hip-hop is universal now, it's all commercial now. It's like a circle full of circus clowns up in the circuit now."
"Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos."
"It's deep-rooted, the music of being young and dumb, It's never muted, in fact, it's much louder where I'm from."
"I don't want to just be fully rapping my whole life."
"I had a dream I could buy my way to heaven, when I awoke, I spent that on a NECKLACE."
"In hip-hop, there's not a lot of love. There's not a lot of love being spread. It's always like 'I'm stuntin' on you raps, or I'm better than you raps.' It's not a lot of 'Yo man, I idolize you raps.'"
"...Shorty's laugh was cold-blooded as he spoke so foul, Only twelve tryin to tell me that he liked my style. Then I rose, wiping the blunt's ash from my clothes, Then froze, only to blow the herb smoke through my nose."
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore--While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As if some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door--Only this and nothing more."
"Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music."
"I bet you never heard of a playa with no game, Told the truth to get what I want, but shot it with no shame. Take this music dead serious while others entertain. I see they makin' they paper so I guess I can't complain...or can I? I feel they disrespectin' the whole thang. Them hooks like sellin' dope to black folks, And I choke when the food they serve ain't tastin' right, My stomach can't digest it even when I bless it."
"I'm not a gangsta rapper. I rap about things that happen to me. I got shot five times. People was trying to kill me."
"Got a light skinned friend, look like Michael Jackson, Got a dark skinned friend, look like Michael Jackson."
"When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap."
"Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride."
"Putting styles on lock, and making beats by the bundle, Scooping more props than Bryant Gumbel...and staying humble."
"My raps are a decision, rabble rousing, spiritual, like gospel music. I don't want to dance. We have so many things to deal with, we need to talk straight up and down."
"Rap will never be the same as before"
"You know it's funny, when it rains it pours they got money for wars, but can't feed the poor."
"I don't know what's better: getting laid or getting paid. I just know when I'm getting one, the other's getting away."
