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I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.

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White, Glitter, Poor, Ashamed

There was certainly, like, a rebellious, like, youthful rage in me. And there was also the fact of no getting away from fact that I am white, and you know, this is predominantly black music, you know.

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Fact, Away, Certainly, Rebellious

To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.

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Mind, Reason, Some, Forgot

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone's doing a certain thing... It's tough.

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Musicians, Doing, Caught, Bars

When Bugs Bunny walks into rehab, people are going to turn and look. People at rehab were stealing my hats and pens and notebooks and asking for autographs. I couldn't concentrate on my problem.

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Asking, Rehab, Going, Stealing

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

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Like, Pick, Spoilt, Pick And Choose

I don't think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.

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Thought, Think, Maybe, Superman

I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice. And if you're always the new kid, you never get a chance to adapt, so your confidence is just zilch.

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Father, Advice, Kid, Give Me

I was going to McDonald's and Taco Bell every day. The kids behind the counter knew me - it wouldn't even faze them. Or I'd sit up at Denny's or Big Boy and just eat by myself. It was sad. I got so heavy that people started to not recognize me.

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Every Day, Behind, Big, McDonald

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

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Aspirations, Been, Everybody, Believed

My only scheme was to be a rapper.

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Only, Scheme, Rapper

Five or six songs leaked from the original version of 'Encore.' So I had to go in and make new songs to replace them.

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New, Original, Six, Leaked

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

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Love, Society, Either, Between

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'

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Learning, House, Had, Haunted

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.

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Myself, Start, Bad, Therapeutic

I felt like I had a really bad case of writer's block... 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.

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Myself, Bad, Like, Therapeutic

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

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Racism, Like, Rap, Key

I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.

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Come, Rough, Talker, Detroit

It feels good to have your work respected again.

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Work, Again, Feels, Respected

I don't know if I ever feel totally great about a record when I put it out. With every record that I put out, someone has literally got to come pry it from me because when I listen to my own music, I just hear flaws in it.

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Own, Feel, About, Flaws

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'.

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I Think, Feels, Telling, Writing Process

It's kind of like a challenge to myself to be able to hear somebody else's hook and kind of interpret the words. Because my own hooks, I already know what I mean when I write them.

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Own, I Write, Hook, Interpret

Being a student of hip-hop in general, you take technical aspects from places. You may take a rhyme pattern or flow from Big Daddy Kane or Kool G Rap.

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Big, Rap, Technical, Kool

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.

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Going, Rhymes, Half, Joking

When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

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Mind, Rap, Became, Crossed

I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

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Something, Going, Which, Nothin

As for my stuff, I'm just doing guest verses for other people's records. I try to stay recording, because if I don't, I get rusty.

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Doing, Other, Records, Verses

Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

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Mother, Now, Definitely, Addict

It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening.

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Movie, Like, Feels, I Wonder

Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.

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Business, Choose, Your, Bedroom

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