I ate weed brownies.. "I'd made a beat in the studio, and all of a sudden all these vivid colors started coming outta the speakers. It was crazy! When I hear music I can imagine a virtual picture, but this time I could see it. It was weird. I wouldn't advise it to anybody. Y'know what it was? I had six of em' - I didn't think they were working. I was like, "Man, this shit don't work, but they good!" It was a huge fucking mistake. All of a sudden, everything was like whoooaaah. Shit was turning into flowers and shit!" - Pharrell, Rolling Stone, December 1, 2005
10 Things You Don't Know About Women: No. 3 - "Hot girls want you to call them smart. Smart girls want you to call them hot." - Paget Brewster, Esquire, January 2006
"I have an excellent medical team. There's Dr. Viagra, Dr. Cialis and nurse Levitra. They keep me, er, straight." - B.B. King, Esquire, January 2006
"It was one thing to already be a high-energy nigga, but now, not only can I exert the energy, but I can also control how I exert the shit. From the stage to sex, you busting a nut, and you still standing up like a muthafuckin' iron horse, knee deep in the ass again like you didn't even bust off!" ." - Busta Rhymes on his new found love of exercise, Vibe June 2006
"The cool don't advertise. If somebody's cool you know it." - Words from a 'hustler' as told to Living Colour bassist Vernon Reid, Ron & Fez Show, XM radio, June 5, 2006
"People will only overlook you if you let them. You can complain and fall into the background, or you can make them pay attention." - Cheri Dennis, Vibe June 2006
"People don't wanna give Mike Jones his respect. I sold 1.4 million. I'm selling more than anybody where I'm from.. A lot of people think all I rap about is my phone number and my name, but my whole thing is I wanted ya'll to know that I'm not only a rapper, but I'm a cool dude. I'm a motivational speaker. The message got across."
- Mike Jones, Vibe June 2006
"Paradise is exactly like where you are right now . . . only much, much better." - Laurie Anderson
"It's funny. I [didn't] used to have a problem with the term 'urban.' Then I thought about it, and I was like, 'What exactly does that word mean?' Forget everybody else and the connotation that they put on it. At the end of the day, I'm a New Yorker. I'm 26-years-old, I grew up in Harlem, I went to private school. I think that I'm the epitome of a metropolitan human being. Because of that [my music] is a melting pot of everything. It's R&B, hip-hop, there's rock, funk, punk. I don't deny any of it. I don't call myself anything; I'm just an artist who makes music.. I know I get put in that category [just] because I'm black. I welcome that. At the end of day , I don't care what you call it; you can call it country music. I do what I do and feel good about it.. No, I didn't sell 15 million records, but I'm on my fourth album. A lot of artists can't even say that."." - Kelis, Hip-Hop Soul, 2006
"Some folks eat Boston Market and think that's soul food. If they came to my mom's house and saw how she gets down, they'd see a vast difference. That's how I feel about my music. People have been spoon-fed processed R&B for so long the grits I'm bringing may be unexpected." - Leela James, Hip-Hop Soul, 2006
"Women grab their crotches too. We just have the decency to do it in private."
- Padma Lakshmi, Esquire, May 2006
"The Beatles when they made those classic albums, didn't even have as good of a studio as I have! George Martin didn't need Pro Tools to make Abbey Road; he used a four-track. Everything that anybody needs is already available and has been available for years. Technology is what's going to fuck up rap, because now with a computer people have the ability to make a beat, make a song, make a video, release a record all from the comfort of their own home without anyone saying they have a right to do this.
Rap had it's own checks and balances, meaning that if you weren't a good enough MC, you weren't going to get on the mic at the party, period. I'm not saying all of it's wack, it's just all of it's decent. That's what makes people say, 'I'm bored with hip-hop,' because they're tired of hearing decent records." - CountBass D, Synthesis, March/April 2006
"I don't think anybody should look to guys in rock bands for the answers. You want entertainment that is relevant to what's going on in your life. I think there's always going to be some element of the guys on stage screaming about what an idiot George Bush is, but certainly I haven't said anything that people don't know already. I think that sometimes when I say it, the reason it works so well is because we're all thinking it already. We're all sort of paralyzed together, we don't know what to do, but sometimes getting together and speaking about it, talking about it relieves some anxiety about it." - Wayne Coyne [Flaming Lips]
"In the short attention span theatre of American life, anything that happened more than 20 years ago may safely be assumed never to have happened at all." - Christopher Bryon, NY Post
"Just because a cat was born in an oven, that don't make him biscuits."
- Angela Bassett, Entertainment Weekly, April 28 - May 5, 2006
"One of my pet peeves is when people monitor each other's money. When your co-worker in the next cubicle rolls up to work in a new BMW, you go home wondering how she's able to afford it. I'm telling you now, don't waste your time. You don't know what financial responsibilities other people may have, so before you classify somebody else as rich and lucky, make sure you know everything about their big picture."
- Kimora Lee (is it still Simmons?), Essence, June 2006
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"My highest goal was to be the lowest income earner in the Harvard class of 1970. So far I've been successful." - NY Attorney General candidate Mark Green, Metro, March 13, 2006
"Some women dumb themselves down because they think it's cute. I have friends that do it - they graduated 4.0 and they act like idiots around guys. It's really annoying." - Pink, Blender, April 2006
You could call it willpower, you could call it zeal, you could call it determination, you could call it God power, whatever you want. It's a thing you gotta have if you wanna make it. Some people just ain't got it. That's the raw truth of it. You gotta want it more than you want some pussy. If you don't want it more than sex, you probably won't get it. [As a teenager], I would love music so much that even when I shouldn't have spent that $10 on that entry fee to get in that rap contest, because I really needed to get a sandwich, I would still spend that $10. But it turned out to better me in the end." - Twista, XXL, January/February 2006
"I can't take my eyes off Jessica Alba's ass. I want a shot at that conch. When she swims over man, I'm just looking. Come on dude, you know what I'm looking at. I was working with her for like three-and-a-half, four months. I couldn't take my eyes off that ass. I'm sorry. She's beautiful. And she's such a pain in my ass, too.. But that's what I love about her. She's so contrary. It doesn't matter what you say, she goes in the other direction. It's like, 'Jessica you don't really think that!' And she knows she doesn't but she's going to run with it. She's the kind of girl you just want to have angry sex with for the rest of your life because it's just that good." - Paul Walker, Complex, February/March 2006
"Actually, I'm against the following. I'm gonna reinvent myself and make it work.. come out different than anybody. There's no rappers dancing as of right now. Just that "Laffy Taffy" dude in the video; he's dancing his ass off. That's the first time I've ever seen that. I'm gonna be dancing my ass off." - Kevin Federline, XXL, April 2006
"The future is three minute away! Not light years away!" - Sanyika Shakur
"The Academy Awards are the Source awards for white people." - Jimmy Kimmel, ABC, March 5th, 2006
"I don't look at new guys like, 'Sucka, I know what you're doing - you're a scam artist!' There's a reason why it's number one in the charts. It's like crunk music. I couldn't really get into it until I went to that crowd in Atlanta. Then you feel the energy, it's a movement, it's a vibe. I won't make music like that - maybe I'll parody it - you gotta realize you don't know everything. You don't have to like it, but understand why "My Humps" is number one on iTunes most-downloaded for like five weeks." - Prince Paul, Scratch, March/April 2006
"Let's just be honest here: in protective custody, there's a lot of guys in there that would get really hurt in the general population because they're pedophiles. How do you think I feel, walking around a unit with 107 guys, when 90 or more are pedophiles and they're looking at pictures of my daughter or have them in their lockers?" - Lindsay Lohan's incarcerated dad, Micheal Lohan, Justice Magazine
"Satan don't like nasty shit. He likes clean shit that he can fuck up. If you sacrifice three virgins to satan, and you fuck two of them first, he'll torture your ass. He don't want hoes and sluts, he wants virgins. Luke from the 2 Live Crew is a friend of mine. I told him, 'Don't look for Satan in the strip club, you'll find him in the church.' People think Satan can't enter a church that is blessed by a righteous person - a lot of y'all ass is not righteous!.. You got Deion Sanders, Natalie Cole, and all these people on the religious network. But what were they doing when they were making $900 million? They didn't have time for all of that. You got MC Hammer with his sixteen illegitimate kids he had by those eighteen dancers he had - and he's a preacher.
The God I know, if he bless you with millions of dollars he don't want you waitin till you're broke to crawl your ass back to the church. [Picks up a Prince record] This is another one who says, 'Now I better give my life to God.' You know, I saw Prince backstage in Venezuela when "Controversy" came out. I said, 'There's no controversy, you like dick!' And Bill Cosby, he's always on tv criticizin' people for being nasty. Ya'll don't know how freaky Bill Cosby is. He used to take turds out of girls asses and keep em' for souvenirs. Had a whole line of em' and could tell you the year on each one. - Clarence Reid aka Blowfly, Waxpoetics
"People need to start rocking George Bush t-shirts like Al Pacino shirts. He's just as gangster." - Natalie Stewart [Floetry], Vibe, February 2006
"Everybody knows 2 + 2 equals five, so stop asking me." - Shaq, during a locker room interview
"Yes, madam, I am drunk. But in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly."- Winston Churchill (shaken in by Pablo)
"Humans are creatures of repetition. Therefore excellence is not an act. It's a habit."
- (shaken in by Gerald Pege)
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Bierce
"There's a Twilight Zone [episode] that puts the whole [retirement] thing in perspective. The guy was a heavy gambler, a degenerate gambler, and he'd lose and lose. Then he got three wishes, and he wanted to win in blackjack. He won every time until he went crazy. Because there were no peaks and valleys, no change. It's like Patti LaBelle, she has a beautiful voice, especially when she hits high notes. But if she hit a high note the whole song, you'd never want another like it from her. It's the fact that she eases into it, and that it's just a small part, a bridge of a song, makes it beautiful. And that's what life is. It's the bridge of a song."
- Jay-Z, Fortune Magazine
The Brazilian bikini wax? "It makes sex better. And it's worth the pain. Believe me the first time I did it the technician did half, and I was like 'Stop!' She said, 'Sit down, I have to finish.' But then it gets easier. The more you do it, the less hair grows back. But yeah, I love it. I swear by it. Every woman should try a Brazilian wax once. And then the sex they have afterward will make them keep coming back."
- Eva Longoria, Cosmo (shaken in by Danielle)
"I've been on the road now like nonstop for over a year. I seen things and been through things, that when I come home, my situation ain't the same. But when I see people I haven't seen in a year, their situation is the same. I don't tell the same jokes as I used to tell, I don't laugh at the same jokes I used to laugh at. The same things that didn't used to piss me off might piss me off now. Fame just changes you as a person."
- Paul Wall, XXL, December 2005
"Allen Iverson: After basketball? I just want to be professional fisherman. That's about it! - NBA.com Chat
"At Summer Jam, Jay-Z put up a picture of me when I was a little kid in my grandmother's dance school. We're all bigger than Jay now." - Progidy of Mobb Deep, Vibe, December 2005
"It's only been 10 months since The Documentary came out, and not only am I the number one rapper in the world - we swallowed G Unit whole." - Game, Vibe, December 2005
"I think he's incredible. I think George Bush is a gangsta. That's what I think. I wanna meet George Bush, just shake his hand and tell him how much of me I see in him." - 50 Cent, GQ, December 2005
"Y'know, people say, 'Kayne is so arrogant. Kanye is so arrogant.' The only thing arrogant about me are my goals. If I said out loud what it is that I'm going for, people would just start laughing. Like, 'What the fuck is wrong with you?' .. People ask me questions, about me, and they want me to give these clichéd, false-modesty-type answers. But I refuse to lower my expectations or my goals to make them happy. It's like the pretty girl in school who wears her hair ugly. Fuck that!" - Kanye West, GQ, December 2005
"Dating in LA sucks, because a pretty girl with a nice face and a body is a dime a dozen. Maybe not a nice brain, but the rest? You throw a rock you hit a hot chick. So a gal's got to rely on something else in this town. Right now I'm in a place where I'm not trying to define myself by a man and a family. I can't expect it and on the other hand, I can't rule it out.. That's why I tell my friends, 'If you're going to live in LA, get yourself a good dildo and a good vibrator and learn to love yourself." - Joy Bryant, Complex, December/January 2006
