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" I've gotten my personal life all the way intact and made sure that it's straight. Without that, you have no foundation. Your building is going to crumble. "
Dr. Dre
Way
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Life
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" I have a high tolerance for pain - both physical and mental. "
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" If you know anything about me and my history, you know I'm very particular about my projects. "
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" Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs is a hustler. In fact, he's what I call an extreme hustler. "
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" I sequence during the entire recording process. The sequencing changes as I'm recording and as I'm listening. From when I'm, like, four songs in, I start trying to figure out which song should come after which. Which is important, and it changes as the album goes. "
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" People are always coming up to me, thinking I've got some magic wand that can make them a star and I want to tell them that no one can do that. Making hit records is not that easy. But it took me time to realize that myself. "
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