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" A big mistake people make when they are trying to lose weight is that they stop eating. They'll eat salads once a day and then their body starts trying to protect itself and holds onto the fat. "
Day
Eating
Fat
" A man becomes as attractive as an attractive woman when he becomes successful and is publicly noted. Power's an aphrodisiac. "
He
Woman
Successful
" A recession is predominantly for the middle class. Where I come from, the majority of people have always lived in a recession. "
Always
Lived
People
" Because hip-hop has no requirements, you deal with people that have the least intelligence on the planet. Some of the people that compare themselves to me, compare themselves to me because they rap and I rap. They can't even read the contracts that they sign to be a rapper, to do the deal. "
People
You
Me
" Chris Lighty was a huge portion of my actual career. It's difficult to adjust to not have someone around that's in your life, in your life. "
Career
Someone
Life
" Eating well was something I learned as I started to be successful and had to travel and perform concerts, which are an intense cardio workout. "
Eating
Travel
Successful
" Every day, families in Africa go without food and water, never knowing when their next meal might be; but we can change that if we all work together. In order to make a difference, every purchase of my new energy shot, Street King, will provide a meal for a child in need. "
Water
Change
Child
" Every morning I wake up in a home where Mike Tyson previously laid in the bed and he earned over $500 million his career. It makes me conscious. "
Wake Up
Home
Career
" Hip-hop - it's the safari: it allows people who aren't under those circumstances to come closer to inner-city life, to explore it without actually being in danger. It's something kids in middle America indulge in to be rebellious. "
People
America
Explore
" I don't display emotions. I have every feeling that everyone else has, but I've developed ways to suppress them. Anger is one of my most comfortable feelings. "
Most
Feelings
Feeling
" If you're familiar with my man Uncle Sam, you understand the only way you can actually feel better about what he's gonna take, come the end of the year, is lifestyle. Only thing you can do is spend some of it. "
You
End
Feel
" I had to overcome challenge after challenge in order to take my life from nothing to living my dreams. "
Dreams
Living
Life
" I have a romantic side. "
Romantic
Side
" I just feel really good about my accomplishments. I haven't had, like, a party because a deal goes through or something like that. I don't know. I need to develop that - I need to have something that I do when things go right. "
Know
Party
Good
" I like generals. I like Napoleon. I like strategy. The majority of them are praised for mass destruction, but it's exciting to see how it comes to the mind mentally. "
Strategy
Generals
How
" I like the story writing process. I usually use someone who has been trained for structure to take the story that I actually want, place those elements in the right places. "
Process
Place
Someone
" I like to sort through music and see whatever pops out to me or inspires me. If I could have a production team going and kind of mix records with me, that would be cool; to take the records and have them sound the way I want them to sound. But I'd rather sort though music to find them things. "
Find
Cool
Team
" I'll have long, straight hair, like down to my back, when I go to Heaven. And I'm not even going to work out, but I'll be in shape. It's a whole new program up there. "
Back
Hair
Heaven
" I'm not trying to save the world. As a musician and artist, it just ain't me. "
Me
Just
Artist
" In my neighborhood... they view the police as someone who comes to take their loved ones away. "
Police
Loved Ones
View
" I read all of the stories that people write about me. The ones that are really interesting are the ones where they actually write their take on me as opposed to just printing what I said, because they're asking similar questions so often, sometimes it just sounds like I'm answering the questions different intentionally. "
Questions
People
Said
" I started boxing at 12, and I was above weight for my age, so they put me in the ring with adults... When you're fighting all the time, it gives you the ability to fight without getting angry. "
Time
Fighting
Me
" I started hustling at 12, my mother hustled ahead of me. I was only allowed to because they knew me. "
Only
Mother
Me
" I think either you're creative or you're not. In general, I don't think you need to be in pain to actually be creative unless you're writing love songs. Then you might need to have some ups and downs within your emotions to start to capture that. "
Writing
Love
Pain
" I think Frank Ocean is a talented artist; I think he's created material that made me know his name, that impressed me, with things he said on a song like 'Novacane.' "
Name
Me
Song
" I think I'll be going to Heaven, because I had good intentions. But my actions are another thing. "
Think
Heaven
Good Intentions
" I think it's easier for the general public to embrace me in a negative way. You have people who already have a perception of me that says I'm a bad person. "
Me
People
Perception
" I think Sean Parker damaged the music business with Napster. "
Music
Music Business
Business
" It's difficult for me to trust a woman. Men are attracted to beautiful women. Women are attracted to men who offer security - financial security. And if you have money and you're famous, women find that sexy. "
Beautiful
Women
Woman
" It's Fifty, not Fiddy. "
Fifty
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