When I fell in love with hip-hop, there was a terminology at the time called "battling." All that was just battling with other artists, but after Tupac and those incidents when it spilled into the street and turned into a negative situation, battling turned into a beef. A whole new dynamic.

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Wise men listen and laugh, while fools talk.

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wise laughing men

Show no love, cause love will get you killed.

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Your opinion of yourself becomes your reality. If you have all these doubts, then no one will believe in you and everything will go wrong. If you think the opposite, the opposite will happen. It’s that simple.

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simple believe reality

Love your enemies and hate your friends, your enemies remain the same your friends always change

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When you work for others, you are at their mercy. They own your work; they own you. Your creative spirit is squashed. What keeps you in such positions is a fear of having to sink or swim on your own. Instead you should have a greater fear of what will happen to you if you remain dependent on others for power. Your goal in every maneuver in life must be ownership, working the corner for yourself. When it is yours, it is yours to lose - you are more motivated, more creative, more alive. The ultimate power in life is to be completely self-reliant, completely yourself.

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Anybody who says that money don't change you - they only say that because they don't make enough.

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The only excuse for being broke is being in Jail.

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You either pray or worry. Don't do both.

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Success is my drug of choice.

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I was born alone and I will die alone. I've got to do what's right for me and not live my life the way anybody else wants it.

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I don't have a problem removing people from around me. They could be around for a long time, and I could get comfortable or used to them, and then I can just get rid of them.

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Sleep is for those people who are broke. I don't sleep. I've got an opportunity to make a dream become a reality.

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I'm really sensitive. And they don't understand that, because my most comfortable feeling is anger. So I'll get angry if you said something to hurt my feelings or you're making me uncomfortable, I'll get angry, and be ready to do something about it.

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I'm the type to swallow my blood before I swallow my pride.

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Sunny days wouldn't be special, if it wasn't for rain.

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life-is-hard pain rain

I'm the diamond in the dirt, that ain't been found. I'm the underground king and I ain't been crowned.

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dirt kings found

Hate a liar more than I hate thief. A thief is only after my salary a liar is after my reality.

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People are like plants: They grow; they change every day.

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grows plant people

Hate it or love it, the underdogs come out on top.

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rapper hate adventure

Some people are born with very little; some are fortunate enough to have it all. When I grew up, we didn't have much. I had to hustle to get what I wanted... but I had that hunger for more. I didn't always make the right choices, but I learned from my mistakes.

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