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" Madlib isn't a beatmaker, he's a producer. "

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" I'm not trying to act like I'm Superman or better than anybody else in the game. I'm just telling my story, showing my strengths and weaknesses - as a human, as a person, as a man. "

" Every project might only sell like 30 to 50,000, but I mean, I'm getting seven, eight dollars every CD. I make more money per record than an artist on a major label - I can definitely say that. "

" He's been my number one influence. If you say Tupac didn't influence you, then you don't really need to be rapping because nobody evokes that kind of emotion on a track like Tupac does. "

" I went to a Bulls game when it was still in Chicago Stadium before they built the United Center. "

" My TV stays locked at 'SportsCenter.' That and 'Pardon the Interruption.' "

" I like good music, whichever lane it comes out of. As long as it's dope, that is all that matters with me. "

" I wanted to be in the NBA. I wanted to be in the NFL. "

" I've always played that role in my family: the breadwinner. "

" I'd be a liar if I didn't say I learned things from Jeezy. Hell yeah, I took some things, some pluses and some minuses, do's and don'ts. "

" I love Lil Wayne. I grew up on the Hot Boyz. "

" Gary is a old factory town right outside Chicago. From my standpoint, my family migrated there in the '50s and '60s from Mississippi - Sardis, Mississippi - shout out to Sardis, Mississippi. My family migrated there just like a lot of black families in that area: they migrated there to get jobs, to get those factory jobs, that steel mill job. "

" I played wide receiver in high school; then I went to college at Ball State and played safety. "

" I had a nightmare that I was mopping floors and that this Freddie Gibbs thing was all a dream. "

" Jeezy just recognized my grind, and I jumped on board with him to enhance it. Artistically, we're in the same mind frame. We come from very similar backgrounds - poverty. That's something that we can both relate to, something that we can convey in our music. "

" I just have to go against the grain. I mean, I can be objective and do what I need to do, handle my everyday living, follow directions, etc. But there's something that's always been attracted to that taboo. It's been like that since I was a child. "

" I'm a common dude. "

" You've got a lot of Tupac clones, but I don't think I'm one of them. I just think I give people a little piece of the feeling he gave them. "

" Ain't nothin' changed with me. I'm Eastside Gary til I die. "

" I'm so hands-on and involved in my own music that I feel like if I put the same effort into another artist, then I can definitely cultivate something great. "

" I don't really know what a debut album is no more. As long as you got music on the streets, you've debuted. "

" Different rappers got different talents. It's like X-Men. "

" I've been engulfed in sports since I was a 2-year-old; I picked up any kind of ball - a basketball, baseball, football - I just loved to play something. I loved the energy of being in arenas and watching the game on TV. "

" I'm not a big video game dude though, but I like 'Madden.' "

" I'm trying to bring gangster rap back to the forefront, like in the early '90s. "

" When you go to places like Gary and Detroit, you see the economic problem in this country and who it's really affecting. "

" Lil Wayne makes good music. He's one of the best rappers. "

" I always want everything I do to be somewhat cinematic. I don't want to be the rapper that'll just post up and shoot a video anywhere with no real meaning to it. "

" I remember I used to go school with guys who couldn't afford notebooks, pens, paper: the necessary tools needed in order to survive in school. It's a lot of kids in Gary who are at a disadvantage without that. "

" I always knew that I would be some type of public figure, but I never knew that it would be rapping, 'cause my dad sang: I saw him deal with the ills of the music industry, just on the outside looking in. "

" After I got dropped by Interscope, I knew in my heart that I had to fight back some way or not rap at all. I just took it upon myself to get myself where I needed to be. "