To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.
I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.
My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it.
My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we're blood.
I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.
Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.
Certainly I'm not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I'm a sponge. I've always been a sponge.
Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn't say I lived in a ghetto; I'd say I lived in the 'hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.
I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.
The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate.
I was a smart kid, but I hated school.
It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.
A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious.
Five or six songs leaked from the original version of 'Encore.' So I had to go in and make new songs to replace them.
The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'.
Hip-hop is ever changing but you'll always have the pack. And you'll always have those people who are separated from the pack.
I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.
Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.
You can make something of your life. It just depends on your drive.
People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now.
