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I love listening to old school stuff. I listen to some new cats out here, but I'm really into, like, Tech N9ne and his clique; I really like Eminem and those guys - cats that got real flow: I really connect with that. But I do love rock. I love a lot of electronica because I love programming synthesizers.

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Love, Here, Some, Old School

Successful people jump at opportunity and take advantage of it.

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Opportunity, Take, Advantage, Successful People

I never envisioned being number one for five weeks, knocking Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men off the charts. That's the scariest thing and the greatest thing that ever happened to me.

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Number, Charts, Weeks, Scariest

I have never met a successful person who talked about failing. The glass is always half full. I don't even like being around negative talkers.

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Glass, Always, Half Full, Successful Person

I think what's beautiful when you're looking at artists like Macklemore and you're looking at artists like Ayron Jones, they're proud of Seattle and they're bringing it back. Seattle's a real music town. When you act ashamed of that, you should be pushed outta the game as far as I'm concerned.

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Game, I Think, Concerned, Seattle

In hip-hop, what you have is you have a lot of formulaic-type bands or rappers that come up. They saw something on the radio, and they want to mimic that formula. And that's just boring. I don't wanna record something just to make money; I want to record something to enjoy it and have fun because I'm a music lover.

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Enjoy, Radio, Bands, Hip-Hop

After 'Return Of The Bumpasaurus' in '96, I just got away from music for, like, a year. Literally, I think I produced two songs in a year. I was totally kicking it, running around.

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Think, Away, I Think, Produced

I'm not really a Democrat or a Republican, but I don't like rhetoric.

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Republican, Like, Democrat, Rhetoric

I follow politics in a big way, and always have since I was a kid. I've got opinions, but they're opinions on both sides - not just anti-Republican, which is a real popular thing for a rap artist to do. If you dis Republicans, nobody will get mad. I think the two-party system sucks. It's absolutely ignorant.

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Politics, Big, Two-Party, Big Way

Pop concerts create an audience for Pops concerts, not an audience for classical symphonic concerts.

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Audience, Concerts, Pop, Pops

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