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" 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. "

" A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.' "

" A lot of truth is said in jest. "

" Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end. "

" Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time. "

" 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. "

" Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned. "

" Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them. "

" Fame hit me like a ton of bricks. "

" Five or six songs leaked from the original version of 'Encore.' So I had to go in and make new songs to replace them. "

" Guns are bad, I tell you. "

" 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 is ever changing but you'll always have the pack. And you'll always have those people who are separated from the pack. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Honestly, I never really put the mic down. "

" I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic. "

" 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. "

" 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 always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream. "

" I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am. "

" I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record. "

" I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker. "

" I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked. "

" I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything. "

" I didn't just invent saying offensive things. "

" 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. "

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