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" Rap was my drug. "

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" The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'. "

" Five or six songs leaked from the original version of 'Encore.' So I had to go in and make new songs to replace them. "

" I was going to McDonald's and Taco Bell every day. The kids behind the counter knew me - it wouldn't even faze them. Or I'd sit up at Denny's or Big Boy and just eat by myself. It was sad. I got so heavy that people started to not recognize me. "

" When 'Paul's Boutique' came out, I was one of the fans that didn't get it. "

" I was a smart kid, but I hated school. "

" I love the attention but I don't like too much of it. "

" Guns are bad, I tell you. "

" Hip-hop is ever changing but you'll always have the pack. And you'll always have those people who are separated from the pack. "

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

" Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me. "

" A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious. "

" Hip-hop saved my life, man. It's the only thing I've ever been even decent at. I don't know how to do anything else. "

" Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism. "

" My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we're blood. "

" I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I'm not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I'm going to do something, I have to do it. "

" Being a student of hip-hop in general, you take technical aspects from places. You may take a rhyme pattern or flow from Big Daddy Kane or Kool G Rap. "

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

" If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters. "

" If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something. "

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

" Fame hit me like a ton of bricks. "

" I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I'm going through or what's going on in my life at that moment. "

" If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down. "

" A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.' "

" I need to keep working on myself for a while. "

" These times are so hard, and they're getting even harder. "

" 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. "

" I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit. "

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" 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. "

" Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end. "