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People who don't know you, you don't know their motives. They smile at you all day, "Oh, that's great. You've done it again! You're the greatest!" And that's not good for an artist.
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You can't turn a bad girl good, but once a good girls' gone bad, she's gone forever.
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I think Lil Wayne is extremely talented. I think he's one of the most talented ones out there.
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Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all.
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Driving Benzes with no benefits, not bad huh, for some immigrants?
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Whoever said that artists shouldn't pay attention to their business was probably someone w/their hand in some artist's pocket.
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Niggas pray and pray on my downfall, But every time I hit the ground I bounce up like round ball
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[T]he truth is that drug addicts have a disease. It only takes a short time in the streets to realize that out-of-control addiction is a medical problem, not a form of recreational or criminal behavior. And the more society treats drug addiction as a crime, the more money drug dealers will make "relieving" the suffering of the addicts.
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I gave you prophecy on my first joint, and y'all lamed out Didn't really appreciate it, 'til the second one came out
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I believe you can speak things into existence.
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I ain't lookin' at you dudes -I'm lookin' past you.
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If I don't show the world growth, how are we going to grow?
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I got mouths to feed til they put flowers on me.
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Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.
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Screamin' 'Carpe Diem!' until I'm a Dead Poet.
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Life is for living, not living uptight, see ya somewhere up in the sky.
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My tears is tatted, my rag in my pocket / Im just looking for love, I know somebody got it
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The most amazing feeling I feel Words can't describe what I'm feeling for real Maybe I paint the sky blue My greatest creation was you.
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You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you.
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My life after childhood has two main stories: the story of the hustler and the story of the rapper, and the two overlap as much as they diverge. I was on the streets for more than half of my life from the time I was thirteen years old. People sometimes say that now I'm so far away from that life - now that I've got businesses and Grammys and magazine covers - that I have no right to rap about it. But how distant is the story of your own life ever going to be? The feelings I had during that part of my life were burned into me like a brand. It was life during wartime.
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I really just like breaking down the barriers, whether it means doing an album with Linkin Park, an album with R. Kelly, or playing at the Brandenburg Gate with Bono.
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It's always been most important for me to figure out "my space" rather than trying to check out what everyone else is up to, minute by minute. Technology is making it easier to connect to other people, but maybe harder to keep connected to yourself-- and that's essential for any artist, I think.
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By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn't need pen or paper - my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape.
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As kids we didn't complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could. And as soon as we had a little money, we were eager to show it.
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