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" I remember when I was 11, I told my mom, 'One day I'm going to buy you a house.' And she said, 'Boy, don't you be making promises you can't keep.' I was like: 'No, Ma, it's not a promise. I'm going to buy you a house one day.' "

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" I was born and raised in the ghetto, on welfare, two minutes from homeless. "

" America has to be not just an idea but a living, breathing thing. "

" Most kids are not dreaming of being programmers, scientists or engineers. "

" I don't despise people. "

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" Romantic love is painful. "

" I don't want to preach to people. "

" Kids today aren't listening to music audio-only. They're picking up a CD and looking at the lyric sheet and wondering why the pictures aren't moving around. Who wants to do that? It's like Bam Bam Flintstone hanging with the dinosaurs vs. Elroy Jetson who's flying around space. If I'm a kid, I wanna be kicking it with Elroy. "

" I've got all this stuff in my head at the same time as I'm doing stuff and I don't know how to stop or slow down. "

" Releasing an album on a major label is like sending a package through Fed Ex. You know that it'll get there, and you know that it'll get there on time. "

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" There's an entry point to any relationship. "

" Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society. "

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" I can procrastinate a little bit. "

" When the music industry started collapsing, the logical people understood that the only place to go for shelter was the underground. If the world on the surface is burning up, and you know people that have bunkers, go to the bunkers. "

" When you're a corporation, you're going to stick with what works. That's why every McDonald's is the same. "

" I'd like to see Apple and Dell factories be brought to the inner cities; in every project in America, there's some factory there, and it's abandoned, and I'd like to see those factories open and bring jobs to America. "

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" You know, the Super Bowl is so fresh that every single commercial is even on, you know, some next-level entertainment. "

" I've been truly protected by my uncles. "

" When you follow your heart, you're never supposed to do things because of what you think people might say. You do it for the opposite reasons. "

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" Everything affects hip-hop. The question is, how does it affect the money that corporations are going to invest to put out different kinds of hip-hop? "

" The computer allows me to execute my ideas at the speed I think them. "

" I don't dream to be like mega crazy rich. "

" It should be mandatory that you understand computer science. "

" I go out partying to figure out exactly who I'm making music for. You can't just guess. "

" You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics. "

" I don't need anyone to validate me. "

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" If you know how to freestyle, you will never have writer's block. "

" Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It's fragile up there. "

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" If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family's life but change your ghetto's life, make your ghetto a good neighbourhood, learn science; try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. "

" Tom Jones is like igloo-cool. "

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