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" I'll stay in my house and watch 'Lockup,' the prison show. "
Missy Elliott
Watch
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Prison
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" I still go on YouTube and watch the old performances and the 'Soul Train' lines. I'm still amazed by how much soul and funk the music and dancers had. "
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" I love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor. "
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" I guess my friends probably think I'm one of the lamest when it comes to doing stuff. "
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" We're told that to be fly, you gotta have a fly car, the rims on your wheels, the fly jewels, and that to work a regular job and make legal money is uncool. "
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" I never stopped recording, but I went through a period where... The one thing that a lot of people don't know is that for as long as I've been as artist, I've been a writer and a producer. "
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" There's that saying: 'God gave you talent, and if you don't use it He'll take it away from you.' And I always said, 'I don't want God to come down and take my talents away.' So, by using all these talents and being successful in all of them, I've always got something to fall back on. "
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" You don't make any money being an artist. Writing and producing? You get your money from that. You live comfortable. "
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" Lil' Kim is my sister, known her for years, and I'll never turn my back on her, but there is enough room for everybody. I want to see everybody get it. "
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" When you are creating to the magnitude that I try to create, your brain is like a computer, and you need to refresh. "
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" I'm not a person that's walkin' down the street looking mean all day. "
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" I don't want to be oh-so-brag-about-it, but 'The Rain' is hot. "
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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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" Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down. "
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" If you got talent, you just have to do you. "
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" Me personally, I don't ask too much, but I do ask Him to continue to bless me successfully, financially, and just to keep me humble. "
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" When you think of Missy, you can't say, 'Missy reminded me of someone else.' There was no Missy comparison before. "
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" I still don't want no broke dude! I'm open to offers, but he's got to be stable. I see a lot of friends who feel they have to be with a man, but they always pick the wrong one. Are there any right ones? "
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" My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people's projects. "
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" A lot of people don't know a lot of records that I've written or produced, so that's a highlight for me as a woman. "
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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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" The person I eventually find will have to like me and my style. "
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" I still represent for overweight adults and kids, but I am also now painfully and personally aware of the health issues. "
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" My imagination is so far out there already. People couldn't imagine what goes on in my brain. "
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" I think it's hard for Aaliyah to be duplicated, because she had her own lane. "
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" I got caught up in doing records for other artists. I just stayed behind the scenes, and time just kinda passed. "
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" Its funny, because for females in general - not just in music, but the corporate ladder as well - anything we do has always been harder for us. When it comes to music, the industry wants you to conform, to look like this and to sound like this and do this or that. It makes it harder. It's harder for us to come out and be bosses and lead the pack. "
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" I felt like, 'How do I fit in?' But then I never fit in. The whole time, I've never fit in. "
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