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" It's kind of like a challenge to myself to be able to hear somebody else's hook and kind of interpret the words. Because my own hooks, I already know what I mean when I write them. "

Eminem

Know

Challenge

My Own

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Way

" Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and 'I'm better at you than that.' "

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" People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now. "

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Look

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Responsibility

Stupid

" Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing. "

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" It's just hard to meet new people, in my position. "

" I didn't just invent saying offensive things. "

" Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time. "

" I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything. "

" Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it. "

" Certainly I'm not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I'm a sponge. I've always been a sponge. "

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Always

Saying

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