rapper Quotes

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

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• expect

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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• between

I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record.

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• face

My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it.

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• enough

Do not be afraid to make decisions, do not be afraid to make mistakes.

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• afraid

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

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• almost

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

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• anything

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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• became

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically.

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• artist

My only scheme was to be a rapper.

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• rapper

It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a baby sitter.

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• baby

Woman are complex creatures.

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• woman

I am very humble, and I am very gracious and very grateful for everything that happens to me and about me and around me.

• 1
• humble

I'm not a Soundcloud rapper anymore.

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• rapper

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don't have any flaws.

• 1
• world

Nothing on 'Relapse' and very little on 'Recovery' was produced by me.

• 1
• recovery

I like women. I love women.

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• love

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

• 1
• anything

Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.

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• fantasy

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

• 1
• come

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

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• bricks

Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.

• 1
• famous

I'd be happy to stay single now because I've always been in relationships. For the first time ever I can do what I want, when I want, with who I want, without answering to anyone.

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• answering

I've always wanted to sing. I don't think I have a great voice, but I just think that I get the emotion. It's very authentic. Whatever emotion I'm feeling, I can sing it, and you can feel it.

• feeling

I like seeing good people win.

• people

Performing 60,000 people, that's easy. The energy's already there. They're already doing most of the work. All you gotta do is not forget the words - and feed them energy, too.

• work

Singing, to me, just feels really vulnerable.

• singing

When I was a kid, this was always my dream: to live in New York.

• live

Everyone that I work with is a friend. I won't make a record with anyone unless we kick it.

• work

Being famous used to just defeat me. I wouldn't leave my house because I was worried about someone being like, 'Oh, are you Mac Miller?' and then the rest of the night I couldn't be myself.

• myself

I don't want to go on tour and have everyone just sitting there waiting for one song.

• waiting

I've been playing a guitar since I was 10 years old.

• guitar

I just like to sing for people who have lost love.

• love

I always thought I'd look corny in the type of rap video in the club with girls and all that type of stuff. I just didn't think I could really pull that off. We always think it's more fun and better just to go outside the box and to use our videos to show cool concepts.

• cool

I flood the Internet with what I think is quality content. That's why I did things like giving out a song every 100,000 Twitter followers because I am just looking for ways to get my fans to hear all this music without over saturating things.

• music

I was never just a 'fill in 16 bars on a beat' rapper. I was making real songs from the jump.

• jump

The whole background of 'Avian' is rain. I was just playing with textures and realizing you can touch music.

• rain

I never watched 'Cheers,' actually.

• cheers

Just because someone may or may not have someone that writes some words for them doesn't mean that, A, they don't have to kill it on the performance, and, B, they don't have to have the ear for what's tight and what's not, which is something a lot of people don't have.

• people

I just have to accept that I won't ever be Al Green, which is a hard pill to swallow.

• green

I just have always felt as long as I'm 100 percent honest, then it's just me. It's a lot easier to sleep at night that way.

• night

My mom did more press than me for 'Faces.'

• mom

I like to enjoy good music. I like Michael Jackson; I don't care who wrote the songs.

• music

People don't really give me much anymore, and for good reason. I have to pay for a lot of stuff now, I can afford a lot more than I ever could before. No one really gives me anything anymore, but it feels good.

• people

I like tattoos. I'm gonna be covered. I'm not going to touch my face or under the chin on the neck: it's my least favorite place.

• face

'Cruise Control' was the first track me and Wiz Khalifa ever did. I made the beat on that, and I played guitar on it.

• guitar

I used to just think about what my fans wanted all the time. But it just started feeling weird to me. I want to just show everyone who I am and stick to my vision. I have to trust myself.

• myself

I'm 21 years old and I think that I've got a lot of perspective in life.

• life

I think, a lot of times, people just want to be cool, and to be in love is not cool. But I think it's the coolest. I think love is the coolest thing that there is.

• love

To me, women have always been the sturdiest people in my life and have been incredible sources of energy.

• life