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"'What you doing in the club on a Thursday?' She say she only here for her girl birthday... They ordered champagne but still look thirsty, Rock Forever 21 but just turned 30."
"A bird in the hand is worth more than a Bush."
"You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you."
"People are very adamant about maintaining a certain sound or a certain era, like, "There were three years of rap that were great, so let's just keep doing that." The genre itself is just stuck in place. It's been treading water for a while."
"I'm 100 percent original, and that's what got me here. My rap music is more understandable, slower. It tells a story. You can write a book on each of my thoughts."
"If you want to say something profound, writing from your heartbeat is different than writing from the loud voices you get from music. If they're rapping from noise, it's about robbing people. It's that simple."
"I guess every superhero need his theme music."
"I'm out for presidents to represent me (Say what?) I'm out for dead presidents to represent me."
"A lot of incredible rap albums over the past couple of decades have deserved Album of the Year. 'To Pimp a Butterfly' is an extension of those albums."
"The government recognized immediately that Rap music has enormous revolutionary potential and politicians immediately came together to end it."
"When I make the music that I make, when it comes to reggae music, I engulf the whole spirit of it all. It's just like when I do rap music or whatever style of music I do, I have to engulf the character I do and bring that to life."
"I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping."
"Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It's hard to say, 'That guy is less than you.' The kid is like, 'I like that guy, he's cool. How is he less than me?"
"And to the rest of the world God gave you shoes to fit you So put 'em on and wear 'em Be yourself man, be proud of who you are Even if it sounds corny Don't ever let anyone tell you you ain't beautiful"
"You and your friends...always together, No time for the B-I-G, so I'm O-U-T. The sex was great, but the headaches I can't take. I think I made a very big mistake."
"I guess I was a combination of House of Pain and Bobby Brown: I was humpin' around and jumpin' around!"
"Went from most hated to the Champion God Flow, I guess that's a feelin' only me and LeBron know."
"You know that one auntie, you don't wanna be rude, ...But every holiday, nobody eatin' her food."
"An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party."
"You ni**az get me sick, wannabe soundin like you know my arithmetic... but we don't sound alike"
