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You got to realise that when I was 20 years old, I had a house, a Mercedes, a Corvette and a million dollars in the bank before I could buy alcohol legally.
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The original version of 'Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang' was made to a Boz Scaggs song; I can't remember the name of the song.
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One of the first people that believed in me, the first person to invest in my talent, me and this guy used to argue all the time in the studio, but at the end of the day, we both realized that we were after the same goal, and that was to make great music. And I'm talking about Eazy-E.
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Somebody approached me about working with Michael Jackson, and I did say no because I like working with new artists or people that I've worked with in the past. I can develop them from the ground up. There's no set standard that I have to live up to or anything like that.
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A lot of times when I'm at home kickin' it, I don't even listen to hip hop. I listen to all types of music.
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I'm not a big spender. I don't get into all the jewelry and all that.
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Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth.
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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've looked at pictures that my mom has of me, from when I was four years old at the turntable. I'm there, reaching up to play the records. I feel like I was bred to do what I do. I've been into music, and listening to music and critiquing it, my whole life.
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I realized at a young age that sequence in an album is almost as important as the songs that are on the album.
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I just make the music feel the way I want it to feel, and I don't put it out until I'm totally happy with it.
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Eminem is just incredible. That's the word that comes to mind: 'incredible.'
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There's never been any bad vibes between me and Snoop.
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Mission accomplished, we didn't have any problems as far as violence goes.
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I know sound, and this is what I'm going to stick to: what I know.
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You just have to find that thing that's special about you that distinguishes you from all the others, and through true talent, hard work, and passion, anything can happen.
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I'm going to record forever.
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'Straight Outta Compton' is the album I'm least happy with. I threw it together in six weeks so we could have something to sell out of the trunk.
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No matter where you are or what you're doing, it's always great if you don't have to get up and physically change the song that plays next.
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My mother got pregnant with me at the age of fifteen. This was '64, and unheard of at that time.
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I've always been a lunatic.
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When we started Aftermath, we had something like 20 artists, and it was driving me crazy. I couldn't sit down and focus on any of it. Plus, it was doubly hard because you ended up crushing these people's dreams when you had to let them go.
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I've gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it's almost like a high. You don't want it to stop. You don't want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.
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In my opinion, some of the hip-hop records that come out, people are willing to compromise. I'm not.