Marshall Bruce Mathers III Quotes
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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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Sometimes you just gotta let sh-t go and say 'to hell with it' and move on.
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Inside I'll always be an outsider
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Just be yourself man, be proud of who you are.
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All my life I've been dealing with my race because of where I grew up [Detroit] and being in the rap game. I'm at a boiling point...Anybody who pulls the race card is getting it right back in their face.
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You gotta live it to feel it, you didn't you wouldn't get it.
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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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My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.
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You don't get another chance, life is no Nintendo game.
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Saving Private Ryan was probably the illest, sickest movie I've ever watched, and I didn't see anybody criticizing that one for violence.
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Cuz this is what happens when bad meets evil We hit the trees till we look like Vietnamese people
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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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Slim Shady is just the evil thoughts that come into my head. Things I shouldn't be thinking about. Not to be gimmicky, but people should be able to determine when I'm serious and when I'm f... around. That's why a lot of my songs are funny. I got a warped sense of humor I guess.
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Be a king? Think not. Why be a king when you can be a God?
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I was a smart kid, but I hated school.
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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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We just kept moving back and forth because my mother never had a job. We kept getting kicked out of every house we were in. I believe six months was the longest we ever lived in a house.
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I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don't know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.
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He made you feel like you knew him. I think that honestly, 2pac was the greatest songwriter that ever lived. He made it seem so easy. The emotion was there, and feeling, and everything he was trying to describe. You saw a picture that he was trying to paint.
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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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I wanna get on TV and just let loose. But can't, but it's cool for Tom Green to hump a dead moose.
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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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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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England? England is in London right?