Eminem quote: "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."

As for my stuff, I'm just doing guest verses for other people's records. I try to stay recor...
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Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things tha...
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It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if ...
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My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it.
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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 serio...
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The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can't really explain - let's just say it&#...
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When 'Paul's Boutique' came out, I was one of the fans that didn't get it.
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I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other thin...
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Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a ...
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Certainly I'm not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying abo...
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I'm not really book-smart.
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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...
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I don't know if I ever feel totally great about a record when I put it out. With every record th...
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The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them t...
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If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.
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The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate.
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I felt like I had a really bad case of writer's block... Music is so therapeutic for me that if ...
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I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart.
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I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.
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Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.
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Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.
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I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would...
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I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I'm not walking around flipping light switches. But when I ...
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I didn't just invent saying offensive things.
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It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my r...
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It's kind of like a challenge to myself to be able to hear somebody else's hook and kind of ...
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Hip-hop is ever changing but you'll always have the pack. And you'll always have those peopl...
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Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.
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You know, not to sound corny or nuthin', but I felt like a fighter comin' up, man. I felt li...
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Touring is hard on the body.
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When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never...
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I realized, 'Yo, I can't do anything in moderation. I don't know how.'
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A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be ...
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My only scheme was to be a rapper.
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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 doi...
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I don't think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that...
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Nothing on 'Relapse' and very little on 'Recovery' was produced by me.
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Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and ...
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I need drama in my life to keep making music.
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I'm very much a creature of habit.
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Well, I'm working all the time to stay out of trouble!
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Rap was my drug.
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The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat i...
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Hip-hop saved my life, man. It's the only thing I've ever been even decent at. I don't k...
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It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to peop...
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There was certainly, like, a rebellious, like, youthful rage in me. And there was also the fact of n...
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It's just hard to meet new people, in my position.
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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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There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not h...
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I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever wo...
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Five or six songs leaked from the original version of 'Encore.' So I had to go in and make n...
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I stopped watching TV because of 'The Wire.' Like, 'The Wire' ruined everything for ...
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I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.
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Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next t...
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The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had ho...
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Honestly, I never really put the mic down.
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I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I&...
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It feels good to have your work respected again.
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Guns are bad, I tell you.
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My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.
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These times are so hard, and they're getting even harder.
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A lot of truth is said in jest.
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I need to keep working on myself for a while.
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I was a smart kid, but I hated school.
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I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.
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My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we're blood.
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I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.
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If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or s...
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I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would...
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I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which...
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I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from...
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I love the attention but I don't like too much of it.
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I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it.
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I feel like a spoilt rapper. I get to pick and choose everything.
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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...
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Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.
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Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happ...
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I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad.
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I've been running a lot, taking care of myself.
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I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record.
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Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got you...
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I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?
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You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There'...
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If you have enemies, good that means you stood up for something.
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I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.
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I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album ref...
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Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.
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Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty muc...
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Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about m...
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Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.
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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...
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My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.
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I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either lov...
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The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing ...
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I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.
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Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.
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People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, ...
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Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow m...
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When Bugs Bunny walks into rehab, people are going to turn and look. People at rehab were stealing m...
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Being a student of hip-hop in general, you take technical aspects from places. You may take a rhyme ...
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I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.
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To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserv...
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If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as ...
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You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers...
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I was going to McDonald's and Taco Bell every day. The kids behind the counter knew me - it woul...
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Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where ...
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Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your busi...
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I act like sh*t don't phase me, inside it drives me crazy, my insecurities could eat me alive.
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Who's Tony Blair, did he get his dick sucked?, oh he ain't shit then...
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LL [Cool J] was actually like- like hearing him rap actually made me want to rap... Yeah, man. That ...
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It doesn't exactly feel like a shock, but it's all new to me, and I'm taking it in as it comes.
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The Slim Shady LP,
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They call me Superman, Leap tall hoes in a single bound, I'm single now, Got no ring on this finger ...
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But what's this sh*t you said about you like to cut your wrists too?I say that shit just clowning do...
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I'm just a little bit sicker then the average individual I think.
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When I say I'll murder my baby's mother, maybe I wanted to but I didn't. Anybody who takes it litera...
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When I say I'll murder my baby's mother, maybe I wanted to, but I didn't. Anybody who takes it liter...
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I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.
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To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any th...
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Dont do drugs, dont have unprotected sex, dont be violent. Leave that to me.
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"Sometimes you just gotta let shit go and say to "hell with it" and move on"
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I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?
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I'm not alone in feeling the way I feel. I believe that a lot of people can relate to my shit-whethe...
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Will Smith don't got to cuss in his raps to sell records - well I do, so fuck him and fuck you too
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Don't do drugs, don't have unprotected sex, don't be violent... leave that to me
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Don’t do drugs, don’t have unprotected sex, don’t be violent. Leave that to me.
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Sometimes you just gotta let shit go and say to "hell with it" and move on
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The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is g...
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I suppose it’s old, partner, but the beat goes on,
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Unless you want to fuck me, why do you care what I look like?
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The Real Slim Shady,
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Look. I was pissed off! That's all I could say. I really felt that I wanted to do that shit. At one ...
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There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to g...
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Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your ba...
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God gave you them shoes to fit you, so put them on and wear them. Be yourself man, be proud of who y...
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Some asshole kept throwing oranges and other fruit at me while I was onstage. Fucker had an arm like...
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Holy Gigantical Completely Natural Bulges!!!
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These times are so hard, and their getting even harder.
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Sometimes I'm real cool, but sometimes I could be a real asshole. I think everyone is like that.
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Whoever likes my stuff, likes my stuff. But just know Slim Shady is hip
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Coz what you say is what you say. Sometimes what you mean is two different things, depending on your...
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I try not to look at it that way. Being white. I don't wake up every day and look in the mirror, 'Oh...
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You can do anything you set your mind to, man.
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It's funny how all the magazines can dwell on my race, but they could never say that my shit is whac...
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Let me remind you of what got me this far, picture me quitting, now draw a circle around it and put ...
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That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it.
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I don't give a fuck, God sent me to piss the world off.
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I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love yo...
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Cause sometimes, you just feel tired. Feel weak. And when you feel weak, you feel like you wanna jus...
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Love, when spelled backwards and read phonetically, reads evil
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I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you.
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You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers...
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I felt like it's my time to shine, I have to rip this. At that time, I felt that it was a life or de...
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To know I chose my own fate I drove through the fork in the road and went straight.
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I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it.
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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 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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