Artis Leon Ivey Jr. Quotes
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I'm still waiting for someone to call me to cater their wedding. But that's gonna cost you. If you want my cousin Jerez to play the sax, that's going to cost you a little more. The sky's the limit after that.
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I'm actually a little bit more tolerant than I thought I was. I've got kids, so I do have a lot of faces.
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'Gangsta rap' is a derogatory label.
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I wasn't driving down the wrong side of the street, smoking marijuana, waving my gun out the window.
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Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighbourhood.
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I love cartoons. I'm just a big kid.
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People treat me nice 'cos I treat them nice.
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I came to Baku the same way I would go to Texas - because they asked me to come and play hip hop.
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I finished the movie a month ago in downtown Los Angeles. I had a lot of fun doing it.
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I was hungry a coupla' times but for the most part I ate every day... I got to go to school for free.
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I never let any of my sons beat me at videogames.
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When my mother first passed away some time ago, I didn't enjoy food anymore. I just ate to live. My mother had always cooked so well that I didn't think I could follow her.
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Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.
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I'd only do Big Brother again if you paid me three times as much money.
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I've been rapping since 1979.
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I perform for soldiers because they are important.
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I'm innocent. I've done nothing. I'm a nice guy.
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I've basically got an album full of singles.
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Let me tell you the truth: I'm 45 years old. I never thought that I would live to see a black president.
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Acting is all about timing. I mean, who has better timing than the MCs?
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If it wasn't for the military I probably would not have ever come to Bosnia for vacation.
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I'm never doing a new album. I'll probably do nothing but singles. I'm as good as anybody out there lyrically and conceptually and can go toe to toe with the best of them throughout history. But I don't know how much longer I'll be doing it. It's not really fun anymore.
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'Shaka' is my catchphrase. Emeril got 'bam,' I got 'Shaka.'
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We take pride in what we do.