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If you consider yourself a part of the culture, then finances can't allow you to be bigger than the actual art form.

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Curtis Jackson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 6
Actor
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Curtis Jackson
Curtis James Jackson
Curtis James Jackson III
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My description of fun would be to sit on someone's couch and watch TV. Regular cable TV. When I'm in a hotel, on-demand is the same. I watch the TV in another language, trying to figure out what they're saying.
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When I nearly died it made me think – this can happen again any second. I better hurry and do what I want. I started to live like I never lived before. When the fear of death is gone, then nothing can bother you and nobody can stop you.
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When I'm actually creating music, I try not to listen to the hip-hop records that are going on, because I think, subconsciously, we steal from each other. If you're listening to a record and it's really hot, then you'll be looking for something that feels like that, or that has a version of it.
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If I don't make music I'm going back to the hood. I'll sell crack. I'm gonna go back to sell crack if I can't make it in the music business and that's what I was doing before that.
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Most people can't handle boredom. That means they can't stay on one thing until they get good at it. And they wonder why they're unhappy.
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Obama is for same-sex marriage. If the President is saying that, then who am I to go the other way?
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You know how a person is made for something? Eminem is made for hip-hop. The best rapper is a white man.
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If you are ambitious, you are running in a tunnel that never ends. You will always find something new to go after. [...] I got high for the first time with Get Rich or Die Tryin' and I have been trying to achieve that feeling again since then, all the time.
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What I want to be is the best bad guy you've ever seen.
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I need you. I need you to hate, so I can use you for your energy
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Even the worst that happens to you can be converted into GOLD if you are clever enough.
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A thug is what I want and a thug is what I need. And my friends don't understand, and I think it's jealousy.
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I don't need to get any validation by someone else who sits next to me in first class. If you think a seat in first class makes you a star, then you're not one.
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I think it's easier for the general public to embrace me in a negative way. You have people who already have a perception of me that says I'm a bad person.
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