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" A lot of times, I walk down the street and listen to people argue, and then I write a song about it. "
Missy Elliott
Street
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" I think it's hard for Aaliyah to be duplicated, because she had her own lane. "
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" When I first started out in the music industry and went to Elektra Records, I didn't go to be an artist, I went to get a record label started. And they said in order to have a label deal, I had to be an artist - so that's what I did. "
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" I do Dance Dance Revolution. I'm not as good as the little kids that come in the arcade. Their little feet go crazy fast. I'm not that fast, but I'm good on it! "
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" And basically I always said when I was little that if I ever became successful or a celebrity, I would buy her this huge house and she would never have to work anymore. And I've done that. So I feel happy about doing that. "
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" Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music. "
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" I don't think Puffy knows what he did for hip-hop. Because he intertwined hip-hop and R&B so that people weren't intimidated. "
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" I couldn't write because my nervous system was so bad - I couldn't even use a pen. "
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" I'm blessed to be living this dream of writing and singing, but that's not the real dream I had. The real dream was to make enough money to take care of all the pain and suffering that my mother has been through. "
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" When I first started in the business, I spent so much! Staying in a Trump Hotel for two years, spending eight Gs a month just living. "
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" When I'm in the studio, I like to be in there by myself because if I'm in the mike room, and I look out and see people talking, or they're not nodding their head or rocking to the music, it makes me feel like it don't sound good, or I'll be scared to really open up vocally because I might mess up, and they might be in there laughing. "
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" I always feel the need to work as if I don't have a deal, because that's what's going to keep me around for a long time. "
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" Before, you only had one Public Enemy and one Rakim and one Salt 'N' Pepa. Now, people have got the formula, and some of them are just doing it for the cheque. It's kind of watered down. "
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" I've only ever had two vacations in my whole career, and I've been in the industry over twenty-something years! "
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Drink
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