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" If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping. "

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" I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing. "

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" As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it. "

" I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal. "

" You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system. "

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" I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous. "

" I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion is they build the biggest wall you could possibly build around it. What happens is, now you become a target. If I go into the hood, I'm at a disadvantage. They could carry guns. I can't. They can hit me in the face. I can't. "

" You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop. "

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" Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things. "

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" If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie. "

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" The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it. "

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