Marshall Bruce Mathers III Quotes
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My only scheme was to be a rapper.
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Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn't say I lived in a ghetto, I'd say I lived in the 'hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.
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Mother, are you there? I love you. I never meant to hit you over the head with that shovel.
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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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Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know, I've written a whole song in an hour.
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The worst thing that could have happened to me as an addict was having money.
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I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.
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It was a slow process. You gotta remember I hadn't recorded a song sober in seven years. So it took me awhile to even feel like I could record a song sober.
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Getting clean made me grow up. I feel like all the years that I was using drugs, I wasn't growing as a person.
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If we can hump dead animals and antelopes, there's no reason that a man and another man can't elope.
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I've been running a lot, taking care of myself.
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You beef wit me, I'm-a even the score equally. Take you on Jerry Springer and beat your ass legally.
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Honestly, I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing.
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Gave a girl herpes in exchange for syphilis, put my LP on your Christmas gift list.
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My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.
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My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.
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Now who is the king of these lewd, ludicrous, lucrative lyrics; who could inherit the title, to put the youth in hysterics; using his music as spirit
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I got a generation brainwashed to pop pills and smoke pot til they brains rot.
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I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.
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The reality is you do not know exactly what is likely to occur tomorrow. Lifetime can be a ridiculous trip, and practically nothing is confirmed.
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I don't like to give the sob story: growing up in a single-parent home, never knew my father, my mother never worked, and when friends came over I'd hide the welfare cheese. Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid. I didn't go to school. I couldn't deal.
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Any MC who chooses to go up against me is getting taken advantage of like Monica Lewinski
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Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have?
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Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.