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Music Quotes

Success is my only option, failure's not.


Don't let them say you ain't beautiful. They can all get fu#ked just stay true to you.


Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.


Music is reflection of self, we just explain it, and then we get our checks in the mail.


Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.


You don't get another chance. Life is no Nintendo game.


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.


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'.


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 emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate.


I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.


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.


Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.


I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.


Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.


Believe it or not, I thank my mom for how she raised me in a neighborhood where I had to jump and chase daily. It only made me what I am today.


Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.


I feel like a spoilt rapper. I get to pick and choose everything.


If we hold on together I know our dreams will never die. Dreams see us through to forever. Where clouds roll by for you and I.


It's the first time I have returned to my roots - like going back to be a trio. The fans really wanted me to go back on stage and do the Supremes music, so I went about trying to make it happen. We'll go on tour in the summer.