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

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

" Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them. "

" I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it. "

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" 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. "

" I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record. "

" I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything. "

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" I feel like a spoilt rapper. I get to pick and choose everything. "

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" It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening. "

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" I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker. "

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

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" There was certainly, like, a rebellious, like, youthful rage in me. And there was also the fact of no getting away from fact that I am white, and you know, this is predominantly black music, you know. "

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" My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it. "

" I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked. "