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It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening.
Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
Everything don't work out for the best. You have to use a lot of those things as lessons in order to build yourself up.
If you look at any creative person's work, you can see bits and pieces of their influences. That's what an artist does.
I played shows in front of like 25, 50 people, and it's a lot harder to do your thing in front of a crowd that's small.
You have an entire generation of kids who grew up with the idea that music is something that you can download for free.
When Slick Rick first hit the scene, I had to practice that British accent. There's no other storyteller like this man.
I feel like if I show people how good I'm doing with myself, then it'll bring people to want me to manage them as well.
Treat every person you interact with, with the same sort of attention and respect which you hope they will give to you.
I try not to listen to a lot of music when I'm starting the recording process, because it can be so subtly influential.
Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, "My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you."
One thing I learned about Tech N9ne is just hard work. That dude don't sleep. I ain't ever seen this dude really sleep.
My brands are an extension of me. They're close to me. It's not like running GM, where there's no emotional attachment.
Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in just as deep a way.
I keep my ear to the streets - that's how I know music. I live, breathe, eat, and sleep music. That's it. Nothing else.
Your money, your singleness, marriage, talent and time, they were loaned to you to show the world that Christ is Divine
The pain and the suffering that I went through made me an activist. It made me stronger; it made me more compassionate.
I love Lauryn Hill when she first came out with her solo project because it felt like she just knew what she was doing.
When you want to read the book, come read the book. When you want to come talk to me and be my friend, come talk to me.
Clams's music to me is where there's no boundaries. It was just exciting for my mind to be as free as Clams's music is.
I can buy anything I want now. It hasn't changed me personally. It just changed what I can do for myself and my family.
I ain't expect it. I just expected to be Chicago famous - 'hood famous. I ain't expect to be outside-of-Chicago famous.
I don't look for signs. But when things happen, I say, 'OK, something must be right.' Or 'OK, something must be wrong.'
You've got to stay focused without being boring - because all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Skinny, but dull.
I love her (Lucifer), with all my heart. She said that she would give me greatness, status, placement above the others.
When I came into the industry, and as I continue to be in it, part of my authenticity is the fact that I speak my mind.
It's crazy. Even doing that one episode of 'Catfish,' I get people recognizing me for it who didn't even know my music.
Hip-hop influences my talent, but I think that punk and everything else I listened to growing up was who my idols were.
I want to get paid for doing my job and whoever don't like it or whoever don't give me my just due then that's on them.
You're looking for help from God, you say he couldn't be found. Looking up to the sky and searchin' beneath the ground.
You can't please everybody. You['d] be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
This one goes out to all my critics: don't you feel stupid? Look how I did it. Look how it came to pass when I said it.
Just out here workin' hard and doin' what we do best: grind, hustle, and anything possible to create new opportunities.
The thing with me and endorsements is it's harder for me to get endorsements because of the simple fact that I want in.
My father always told me to wisen up, son. Cause if you hung with nine broke friends, you're bound to be the tenth one.
I have so much respect for people in the theater. You can't do 10 or 15 takes. It's all live. It's like life in motion.
I want to convey how beautiful it is to close your eyes and dream. And then to open them and make that dream a reality.
What's powerful about the mind, the mind comes through every physical and when the physical goes the mind still exists.
I like to write music for fun. That's my hustle, my grind, my means of stayin' alive, and it's also my recreation, too.
Radio and TV don't have the power like they used to. With the Internet, people can pick. You can't hide talent no more.
To put it in my music, that's not the message I am trying to send out. That's not the type of artist I am trying to be.
My childhood name that my father gave me, my mother, my grandmother, grandfather, family and friends all call me T.I.P.
I don’t want to be a person with full hands, resting from dreams, but a person full of dreams unable to rest his hands.
When my daughter wanted a toy and I had to check the price of it before buying it - that was one of the worst feelings.
The most important time in history is - NOW - the present, So count your blessings cause time can't define the essence.
But there's so many things in life like women, like children, like God and family that transcends the world of hip-hop.
I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out of the bank until I saw how Citi Bank responded to Occupy Wall Street.
I like to keep a uniform - wear a blazer, try to keep the same colour pants; very tailored, very fitted but still edgy.
My goal, my aim is to be a superstar, but not in a cheesy way. I want to go to America and do what they do. But better!