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.

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.

Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.

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

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.

Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you’re always going to find a hip-hop tape; that’s all I buy, that’s all I live, that’s all I listen to, that’s all I love.

I’m stupid, I’m ugly, I’m dumb, I smell. Did I mention I’m stupid?

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

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

My only scheme was to be a rapper.

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

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

If there’s not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

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

I might talk about killing people, but that doesn’t mean I do it.

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.

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

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn’t, then why would you say I am.

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.

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

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

A lot of truth is said in jest.

I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.

The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

These times are so hard, and they’re getting even harder.

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.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

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.

Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.

There was a while when I was feeling like, ‘Damn, if I’d just been born black, I would not have to go through all this’.

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