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" I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record. "
Eminem
I Think
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" 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. "
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" I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid? "
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" My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we're blood. "
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" When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap. "
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" The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'. "
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" I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad. "
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" You know, not to sound corny or nuthin', but I felt like a fighter comin' up, man. I felt like, you know, I'm being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this. "
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