Marshall Bruce Mathers III Quotes
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If you can afford...a computer, you can afford to pay $16 for my...CD.
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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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Believe it or not, I thank my mom for how she raised me in a neighborhood daily to jump and chase me. It only made me what I am today.
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We sing for these kids who don't have a thing.
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Insecure about my body, about my personality, sometimes even about my understanding of everything.
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I'm certainly not a f**king fashion consultant. Don't call me if you want to know how to dress. I just rap. That's all I really know how to do.
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With every song, all the elements have to work. First, the beat has to be great - you start there. You start with the music, and then the ideas follow. Then you start thinking of rhymes, and then you record it, and sometimes - this happens to me a lot - it doesn't come out as good as it did in my head when I first wrote it.
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Lose yourself in the music, the moment - you own it.
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I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.
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I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.
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But I still rap like I'm on my Pharoahe Monch grind.
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I'm hatin' my reflection, I walk around the house tryin' to fight mirrors, I can't stand what I look like
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I really should have fell but I stood
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I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you.
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Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.
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Though I'm not the first king of controversy, I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley. To do black music so selfishly, and use it to get myself wealthy.
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Money is what makes a man act funny.
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I need drama in my life to keep making music.
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I maybe made some mistakes, but I'm only human.
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I'm just a little bit sicker then the average individual I think.
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Ain't nothin' but a whole lot of suckin' goin' on in rap.
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Have you ever been hated, or discriminated against I have, I’ve been protested and demonstrated against.
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Guns are bad, I tell you.
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I'm not really book-smart.