Marshall Bruce Mathers III Quotes
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I feel like a spoilt rapper. I get to pick and choose everything.
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When I do something I have to do it all the way - that goes for music, with a high-hat, a snare drum, a rhyme, everything. I have to push it to the extreme. That's how I realized I have addictive behavior. Somebody told me this once, that the thing that makes me bad is the same thing that makes me good at other things.
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Money will brainwash you and leave your ass mindless.
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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.
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People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now.
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I realized, 'Yo, I can't do anything in moderation. I don't know how.'
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I ain't looking back only forward.
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Don't you wanna grow up to be just like me, I slap women and eat mushrooms then OD.
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Smacked her so hard I knocked her clothes backwards like Kris Kross.
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Coming up as an MC, I took the frustrations of the underground and brought it with me into the mainstream. I know there was a certain complex I had in the beginning that was just a little paranoid or a little...sensitive.
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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'.
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I've always respected what Wayne does, and Wayne, to me is definitely one of the greatest in the game right now.
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Love, when spelled backwards and read phonetically, reads evil
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In the land of the killers, a sinner's mind is a sanctum.
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I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.
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You can't control who likes you. If I got Backstreet Boy fans what am I supposed to do? Turn them away? Whoever likes my stuff, likes my stuff but just know Slim Shady is hip hop, I grew up on hip hop, it's the music I love and it's the music I respect. I respect the culture...that's me.
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I get offended when people say, 'So, being a white rapper...and growing up white...after being born white...' It's all I ever hear!
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And all those who look down on me I'm tearing down your balcony.
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You can try and read my lyrics off of this paper before I lay 'em But you won't take the sting out these words before I say 'em
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When I say I'll murder my baby's mother, maybe I wanted to but I didn't. Anybody who takes it literally is 10 times sicker than I am.
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I will not fall, I will stand tall, feels like no one can beat me.
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Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.
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Never take ecstasy, beer, baccardi, weed, pepto bismol, vivarin, tums, tagamet hb, xanax, and valium in the same day. It makes it difficult to sleep at night.
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I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.