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I Don't Know If I Ever Feel Totally Great About A Record When I Put It Out. With Every Record That I Put Out, Someone Has Literally Got To Come Pry It From Me Because When I Listen To My Own Music, I Just Hear Flaws In It.

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I Don't Know If I Ever Feel Totally Great About A Record When I Put It Out. With Every Record That I Put Out, Someone Has Literally Got To Come Pry It From Me Because When I Listen To My Own Music, I Just Hear Flaws In It.

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I Had This Whole Slim Shady Concept Of Being Two Different People, Having Two Different Sides Of Me. One Of Them I Was Trying To Let Go, And I Looked At The Mirror And Smashed It. That Was The Whole Intro Of The Slim Shady Ep. Slim Shady Was Coming To Haunt Me.

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I Just Say Whatever I Want To Whoever I Want Whenever I Want Wherever I Want However I Want.

It Feels Good To Have Your Work Respected Again.

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If You Get Offended By My Music, Don't Listen To It.

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Everything Always Happens For A Reason.

Happens For A Reason

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Saving Private Ryan

I Got A Generation Brainwashed To Pop Pills And Smoke Pot Til They Brains Rot.

I Have Big Nuts. Huge Nuts. Elephantitis Of The Balls - That's What I Have.

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Meeting New People

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