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"As a rapper, I feel like image is always important but even more so than image, I really love clothes, that's why I don't use stylists. I want to do it myself because I really love it."
"This one Corbusier lamp was like, my greatest inspiration ... I'm a minimalist in a rapper's body."
"If I don't win, the award show loses credibility."
"I felt like I was definitely robbed, and I refuse to give any politically correct bullshit ass comment. I was the best new artist this year."
"Yo Taylor, I'm really happy for you. I'ma let you finish. But Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time!"
"I don't wanna forget the fact that I wanna be one of the best rappers. I feel like some of the best rappers ever - 2Pac, namely, one of them - could take sub-par beats or average beats and turn them into incredible songs."
"Secrets you were telling everybody but me.. Don't be fooled by the money I'm still just young and unlucky, I'm surprised you couldn't tell"
"Only black people in the whole neighborhood, so let's break it down: Me, I'm a decent comedian, I'm a'ight. Mary J. Blige, one of the greatest R&B singers to ever walk the Earth. Jay-Z, one of the greatest rappers to ever live. Eddie Murphy, one of the funniest actors to ever, ever do it. Do you know what the white man that lives next door to me does for a living? He's a f*****g dentist."
"You should be able to drink a clean cup of water and you should be able to write your own name. That's the kind of stuff that holds dear to me, not I'm the best rapper. That doesn't matter to me. At that point it's all ego to me and I don't want to be driven by that and I try my best not to."
"You guys are always going off about how much money you have. Do you realize what's going on in this world right now?' All these black rappers? African rappers? Talking about how much money they have. Do you realize what's going on in Africa right now? It's just like, you guys are disgusting. Talking about billions and billions of dollars you have. And spending it frivolously, when you know, the Motherland is suffering beyond belief right now."
"A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are."
"So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our history so full of tragedy and misery."
"Mama raised a hellraiser why cry, That's just life in the ghetto, do or die."
"To me, I feel that my game is strong. I feel as thought I'm a shining prince, just like Malcolm, and I feel that all of us are shining princes, and if we live like princes, then whatever we want can be ours. Anything."
"To all the seeds that follow me protect your essence, Born with less, but you still precious."
"All good niggers, all the niggers who change the world, die in violence. They don't die in regular ways."
"Should we cry when the pope dies, my request we should cry if they cried when we buried Malcom X"
"Our unborn never got to grow, never got to see what's, next, In this world full of countless threats."
"Though are hands are chained like they are, they haven't taken music from us yet. So that's how I'll fight. People tell me don't quit like everyone else. I wont have no fear."
"I said it in the beginning. That I was gonna take them niggaz out the game and sure enough I will. Already people can't look at Biggie and not laugh."
