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Driving by my ambitions, desire higher positions, to see eternally and my mission, to be more than just a rap musician.
I will die Before My Time. Because I feel the shadow's Depth. So much I wanted to accomplish. before I reached my Death
I struggle to be rugged and raw dude, trying to survive in the trials and lawsuits, Everybody wants to test me, WHY ME?
It will be true work that the kids can follow, as opposed to a facade of you doin' something, and you're doin' nothing.
I don't see no more Billie Holidays, no more Marvin Gayes, no more Smokey Robinsons. I don't even see no more Nirvanas.
When the Fugees were big, we made a whole lot of money, and what happened was that I saved my money and never spent it.
Where I'm from is like 'Hustle Flow' versus '8 Mile.' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music.
I really wanna work with Kanye West. He's one of the few people I haven't got to work with yet that I really wanted to.
I said, 'What you wanna be?' She said, 'Alive.' It made me think for a minute, then looked in her eyes ...I coulda died.
When I see the discrepancy between kids in the Philippines and the U.S., I feel like I have to give them an opportunity.
I really want to be the black Mr. Rogers - that's my goal. I would do everything the same but with a hip-hop feel to it.
I was born with no money. So when people talk about Bow Wow being rich his whole life, I don't know where they get that.
The biggest thing that has happened to hip-hop is the clinging on to the corporation as the all-mighty hub of the music.
I'm a personal type of person. I'll speak when I have something to say, not 'cause someone just wants to know something.
I got into music via the competitions; the first time I ever performed was in a kind of rap battle, competing for money.
Sweat pants, hair tied, chillin wit no makeup on. That's when you're the prettiest, I hope that you don't take it wrong.
Rick Barry always amazed me - he was one of the best free-throw shooters of all time, and he used to throw it underhand.
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'.
When you go to places like Gary and Detroit, you see the economic problem in this country and who it's really affecting.
Artists can most definitely control the culture of fashion. Kids and different fans look up to us for dressing pointers.
I think any time you're at the end of a trip you're usually pretty ready to come home and start working regularly again.
The thing is, I've always wanted to be a star. I've always wanted to be an Elvis Presley or a Tupac - like, a huge icon.
Doing a show is very similar to what meditation is supposed to be: being there and being present in that space and time.
I've got a phone, answer machine, TV set, computer, hand grenade - everything you need to run a business in Los Angeles.
Changing the course of destiny, so I'm strapped with weaponry cause the government don't give a f-k about protecting me.
Satan is around y'all. Devil on your shoulder. All these niggas is corn, sworn in secret societies, devils with no horn.
I love women. I love 'em to death, but sometimes you have to be careful. Sometimes these women out here play games, too.
Stop screamin', you know the demon said it's best to die, And even if Jehovah witness, bet he'll never testify, D'Evils.
Dallas Mavericks want me as a bald-headed 5' 8" guard with a 95" vertical. Vince Carter respect my legs, ask Shawn Kemp.
I really don't have no regrets. I think that where I am in the stage of my career and in my life made me who I am today.
Why live for the approval of men when you can have the approval of their Creator? What can they give you that God can't?
Suppressing your hurts is like not tending to a bullet wound. Eventually you will bleed out. Dont numb pain, express it.
I think we're all wounded, but some of us, when we experience the healing of those wounds, that they scar and scab over.
I have a positive core, and what I'm doing for music and Earth and the people is more living and less critical thinking.
I could be a comedian. I could be a gangster. I could play all of those parts, even for the first time... I'm versatile.
Every girl deserves a guy who'll prove to her that not all guys are the same, a guy who'll love her just the way she is.
I am very humble, and I am very gracious and very grateful for everything that happens to me and about me and around me.
I don't think you should go around talking trash about people because I think that's how you get your hat handed to you.
That's one of the good things about music. You get to do it live, where you can touch the people and interact with them.
The IRS'll never sweat me or even put up a fight... Cause I'm sure I've paid more in taxes than you've made in yo' life!
In the quest to be a man, you start to learn you need your family. If it wasn't for them, I'd be way closer to insanity.
I want to keep the whole 'Lace Up' movement going. I want to take it national and international with a machine, a label.
I think my thing is I grew up in the ghetto, and I was able to get a second chance. That's what I'm trying to tell kids.
I love artists who have spirituality. Jonathan Coulton is the man, I love his melodies and lyrics. Chap-hop is the bomb!
People afraid of criticism but I always put myself in a sacrificial position,they been know I ain't just rappin for fame
Through the lights cameras and action, glamour glitters and gold I unfold the scroll, plant seeds to stampede the globe.
I do have a few personalities. When people started making a big deal out of it, I started making names for these people.
I think sometimes the fashion world isn't even about clothes anymore; it's about this 'in' crowd, and I'm not into that.
You like me, you don't like me, you love me, you hate me. I'm gonna be me, but one thing I have to back it up is skills.
If you've got a plan, it's not just like a pipe dream. You have a step-by-step list of things to do to get to your goal.