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If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.
Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.
I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don't know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.
Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.
The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.
Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.
I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.
I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.
To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.
Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and 'I'm better at you than that.'
Hip-hop saved my life, man. It's the only thing I've ever been even decent at. I don't know how to do anything else.
Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.
Five or six songs leaked from the original version of 'Encore.' So I had to go in and make new songs to replace them.
It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening.
There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'.
Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.
People at rehab were stealing my hats and pens and notebooks and asking for autographs. I couldn't concentrate on my problem.
Hip-hop is ever changing but you'll always have the pack. And you'll always have those people who are separated from the pack.
I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.
I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.
As for my stuff, I'm just doing guest verses for other people's records. I try to stay recording, because if I don't, I get rusty.
The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can't really explain - let's just say it's all I can really do while I'm doing it.
I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.
I don't think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.
I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically.
I stopped watching TV because of 'The Wire.' Like, 'The Wire' ruined everything for me because I don't even want to watch anything else now.
I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I'm not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I'm going to do something, I have to do it.
It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a baby sitter.
Certainly I'm not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I'm a sponge. I've always been a sponge.
Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I've written a whole song in an hour.
Now who is the king of these lewd, ludicrous, lucrative lyrics; who could inherit the title, to put the youth in hysterics; using his music as spirit
A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious.
Being a student of hip-hop in general, you take technical aspects from places. You may take a rhyme pattern or flow from Big Daddy Kane or Kool G Rap.
If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.
The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.
Never take ecstasy, beer, baccardi, weed, pepto bismol, vivarin, tums, tagamet hb, xanax, and valium in the same day. It makes it difficult to sleep at night.
The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids.
Honestly, I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing.
I felt like I had a really bad case of writer's block... Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.
I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I'm going through or what's going on in my life at that moment.
It's kind of like a challenge to myself to be able to hear somebody else's hook and kind of interpret the words. Because my own hooks, I already know what I mean when I write them.
People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now.
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.
Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have?
When Bugs Bunny walks into rehab, people are going to turn and look. People at rehab were stealing my hats and pens and notebooks and asking for autographs. I couldn't concentrate on my problem.
You know, not to sound corny or nuthin', but I felt like a fighter comin' up, man. I felt like, you know, I'm being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.
There was certainly, like, a rebellious, like, youthful rage in me. And there was also the fact of no getting away from fact that I am white, and you know, this is predominantly black music, you know.
Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn't say I lived in a ghetto; I'd say I lived in the 'hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.
I don't know if I ever feel totally great about a record when I put it out. With every record that I put out, someone has literally got to come pry it from me because when I listen to my own music, I just hear flaws in it.
I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice. And if you're always the new kid, you never get a chance to adapt, so your confidence is just zilch.