Marshall Bruce Mathers III Quotes
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Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity. To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment. Would you capture it or just let it slip?
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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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A plaque and platinum status is whack if I'm not the baddest.
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I haven't had a perfect career. I've put some albums out that, looking back, I'm not super proud of, but there's also a lot of stuff that I am very proud of.
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I was a smart kid, but I hated school.
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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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So many lives I touch, so much anger.
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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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Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.
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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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Any MC who chooses to go up against me is getting taken advantage of like Monica Lewinski
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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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Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.
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My only scheme was to be a rapper.
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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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A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'
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My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.
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Gave a girl herpes in exchange for syphilis, put my LP on your Christmas gift list.
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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 don't speak, I float in the air wrapped in a sheet I'm not a real person, I'm a ghost trapped in a beat
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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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I do say things that I think will shock people. But I don't do things to shock people. I'm not trying to be the next Tupac, but I don't know how long I'm going to be on this planet. So while I'm here, I might as well make the most of it.
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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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Mother, are you there? I love you. I never meant to hit you over the head with that shovel.