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Missy Elliott Quotes

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I go out and date people, but I don’t have that relationship, where you know, I’m like Jennifer Lopez, like I’m going to get married.
Missy Elliott
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What my home life is like now is great.
Missy Elliott
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It’s just that back then we didn’t know that was considered being a coproducer. I would sit on the side and say what I wanted musically, but at the time we thought if you aren’t the one playing it, you don’t get the credit. Now you’ll start seeing my name listed as producer.
Missy Elliott
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You have to be ready to sing and perform at any time.
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I believe that tracks speak to me. Some tracks make me write certain music or make me feel sad or inspire me to write a sad love song. Each track has its feeling to me.
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I most definitely want kids, but I’ll probably adopt kids.
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I ain’t no icon. It’s people like Patti LaBelle, somebody like that’s an icon. I’m just Missy. I’m just crazy, that’s all.
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My mother helped me to be who I am: to have strength and not to let people run all over me and yet to be humble; to realise that all of this that I have today could be gone.
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When you turn on your radio, you don’t always want to hear about someone shootin’ some person. Even if that’s the lifestyle they live, people don’t always want to hear it.
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When you think of Missy, you can’t say, ‘Missy reminded me of someone else.’ There was no Missy comparison before.
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My Struggles is a record close to me. It’s about what I went through at home living with an abusive father.
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I’m not a person that’s walkin’ down the street looking mean all day.
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I don’t think Puffy knows what he did for hip-hop. Because he intertwined hip-hop and R&B so that people weren’t intimidated.
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I want people to feel the heat while they walk down the street and they’re just kickin’ it.
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Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.
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I think Aaliyah has influenced artists like a Ciara.
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It could be hectic sometimes when you’re being an artist and running a label at the same time. But there are times when you just have to say that this my time period to work on my stuff, and then you say this is the time to concentrate on my artists.
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I know how domestic violence can affect a family, and I want to do everything I can to stop it from happening to others. The most important thing we can do is teach kids that they can break the cycle.
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No, because I don’t want to hear what’s hot and feel I have to copy it. I’ll just make up my own thing.
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No matter what I’m doing for myself or someone else, I’m constantly writing and working on other people’s albums.
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21
I’ve only ever had two vacations in my whole career, and I’ve been in the industry over twenty-something years!
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Everybody is doing the same old thing.
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Me personally, I don’t ask too much, but I do ask Him to continue to bless me successfully, financially, and just to keep me humble.
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You get people who rap about stuff that they don’t do all day long. Half those guys, you hear them on the radio, and then you meet them, and you’re like, ‘Wow. They’re so sweet.’
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I don’t just throw out microwave records.
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I guess my friends probably think I’m one of the lamest when it comes to doing stuff.
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27
I think it’s hard for Aaliyah to be duplicated, because she had her own lane.
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‘Soul Train’ means so much to me.
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29
I got caught up in doing records for other artists. I just stayed behind the scenes, and time just kinda passed.
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When it comes to size, most people don’t want to see themselves looking bigger than what they are.
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I always said if a man would have done half the records that I’ve done, we would know about it. But we don’t know all the records I’ve done for other artists.
Missy Elliott
32
When I first started out in the music industry and went to Elektra Records, I didn’t go to be an artist, I went to get a record label started. And they said in order to have a label deal, I had to be an artist – so that’s what I did.
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My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people’s projects.
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34
When something is so hot, I don’t want to just jump on it right away. I want to take it home and make sure I give it my best shot.
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Rule number one in negotiating anything with Missy is never try and run me over. Never push me, because I am a very strong woman. I’m nice, but I’m very strong. When it gets down gritty, I can get grittier. Never, ever underestimate me.
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Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.
Missy Elliott
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Especially when the expectations become so high of you, you always remember the last record that might have been really successful, and you’re trying to outdo that or trying to make something that does not sound like the last record.
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If you got talent, you just have to do you.
Missy Elliott
39
When you turn on your radio, you don’t always want to hear about someone shootin’ some person. Even if that’s the lifestyle they live, people don’t always want to hear it.
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40
I want to be cutting-edge.
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41
Lil’ Kim is my sister, known her for years, and I’ll never turn my back on her, but there is enough room for everybody. I want to see everybody get it.
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When you are creating to the magnitude that I try to create, your brain is like a computer, and you need to refresh.
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43
I never record in front of anybody.
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44
My Struggles is a record close to me. It’s about what I went through at home living with an abusive father.
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45
No, I’m a flirtatious person; I’ll flirt all day long, but it really is hard to get into that when I’m so into the music, and I’m in the studio all day long and all night sometimes. That’s not an exaggeration.
Missy Elliott
46
I love my mother. She’s my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor.
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47
I don’t want to get caught up and be an artist always on the go. Because once you do that, it’s hard to get into the studio and do what I do.
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My father was very abusive, and it was hard for my mother at first to leave because we had depended on him for so long. Sometimes you kind of get adjusted to getting that beating.
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Left Eye is a a rare gem.
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50
I am very scared of wasps; my cousin was stung in the eye once.
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51
I mean, when it’s time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine.
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52
I got to feel like what I’m giving the fans is 100 percent and that it’s game-changing.
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I still represent for overweight adults and kids, but I am also now painfully and personally aware of the health issues.
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54
I wasn’t born a superstar.
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I didn’t want to be a genius! That ain’t cool.
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56
I try not to be cruel to people. I know there’s a karma, and I’m constantly thinking of my blessings. I live and die by being a Baptist. If I can’t go to church on a Sunday, I’ll get a tape by the Clark Sisters and slide it in for the day.
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I’d stand on the side of the road when I was just a little girl singing on trash cans.
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I couldn’t write because my nervous system was so bad – I couldn’t even use a pen.
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No, because I don’t want to hear what’s hot and feel I have to copy it. I’ll just make up my own thing.
Missy Elliott
60
I wasn’t born a superstar.
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61
You have to be ready to sing and perform at any time.
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I’m blessed to be living this dream of writing and singing, but that’s not the real dream I had. The real dream was to make enough money to take care of all the pain and suffering that my mother has been through.
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I’m not tryin’ to come off as the best lyricist.
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64
Before Missy, there was no comparison to what Missy was doing.
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65
I’d stand on the side of the road when I was just a little girl singing on trash cans. People would roll down their windows saying, ‘Isn’t she cute‘. I had a vivid imagination. I always pretended it was some big stage.
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When you are creating to the magnitude that I try to create, your brain is like a computer, and you need to refresh.
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Seeing my mother become very strong and very independent had a huge impact on me.
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My imagination is so far out there already. People couldn’t imagine what goes on in my brain.
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I felt like, ‘How do I fit in?’ But then I never fit in. The whole time, I’ve never fit in.
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I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there’s some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that’s really important to us, and music is all we’ve really got.
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Music is a male-dominated field.
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I want to be cutting-edge.
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And basically I always said when I was little that if I ever became successful or a celebrity, I would buy her this huge house and she would never have to work anymore. And I’ve done that. So I feel happy about doing that.
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I’ve always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.
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Now everybody’s sampling.
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The reason I stay home more is because I realise that my blood pressure started going up.
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My blood pressure was always up from just overworking.
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I want to make something commercial that people can pick up on.
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It’s just that back then we didn’t know that was considered being a coproducer. I would sit on the side and say what I wanted musically, but at the time we thought if you aren’t the one playing it, you don’t get the credit. Now you’ll start seeing my name listed as producer.
Missy Elliott
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I’d stand on the side of the road when I was just a little girl singing on trash cans. People would roll down their windows saying, ‘Isn’t she cute‘. I had a vivid imagination. I always pretended it was some big stage.
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It feels different…. When hip-hop was beginning for me, people weren’t making the kind of money that they make now. It was for the love of doing it and having fun with it.
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I mean, when it’s time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine.
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83
I’ll stay in my house and watch ‘Lockup,’ the prison show.
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I’d stand on the side of the road when I was just a little girl singing on trash cans.
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85
He was like, ‘I want to get in the studio with you.’ Who turns down Pharrell?
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I think it’s being innovative and very creative to stay away from flat-out sampling somebody else’s record. To me, that doesn’t show too much of your creative side unless you take a little piece and add it, almost like spice on a chicken.
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I never stopped recording, but I went through a period where… The one thing that a lot of people don’t know is that for as long as I’ve been as artist, I’ve been a writer and a producer.
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People are quick to be like, ‘You’re irrelevant. You’re a flop; you’re washed up.’
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If you got talent, you just have to do you.
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Breaking news: there is only one Missy.
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I think it’s hard for Aaliyah to be duplicated, because she had her own lane.
Missy Elliott
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All of the trials and tribulations from personal to the artist. It shows that I’m human. People see the glamorous stuff, but they don’t see the background.
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I was very disturbed to find that a few people were angry at my weight loss.
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Things happen in your life, and then you can write something else instead of the same three topics – like, how many times can we write about the clubs?
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And basically I always said when I was little that if I ever became successful or a celebrity, I would buy her this huge house and she would never have to work anymore. And I’ve done that. So I feel happy about doing that.
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Left Eye is a a rare gem.
Missy Elliott
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I’m not a person that’s walkin’ down the street looking mean all day.
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I was always feisty, always that kid that would be on the porch with a hairbrush singing or rapping.
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I want to dip my foot in some acting. And most definitely want to mentor upcoming artists and give them the wisdom that was given to me.
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100
I still don’t want no broke dude! I’m open to offers, but he’s got to be stable. I see a lot of friends who feel they have to be with a man, but they always pick the wrong one. Are there any right ones?
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I used to put all my doll babies on my bed with their hands up and I would do full shows for them. I’d even do the screaming and clapping. I was bugging to be a singer.
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I remember having mice in the house and my father taking some newspaper and beating me because mice was running on me while I was asleep.
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What my home life is like now is great.
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I don’t want to be oh-so-brag-about-it, but ‘The Rain’ is hot.
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105
When it comes to size, most people don’t want to see themselves looking bigger than what they are.
Missy Elliott
106
I love to see women just have on their own, and you watch the guys do it all the time. They go out on the road with each other – probably don’t even like each other, but they going to get that money.
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I never drank water. Always soda. I didn’t use to like water, but I’ve had to train myself to drink it.
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Music is a male-dominated field.
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I’ve always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.
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Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.
Missy Elliott
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No matter what I’m doing for myself or someone else, I’m constantly writing and working on other people’s albums.
Missy Elliott
112
I got a mother who’s very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.
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What I love about Kanye is that he doesn’t fit the mould either. He does what he feels.
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I feel like, O.K., if I can make it as a singer, then let me try rapping. If I can make it as a rapper, then let me try writing. All right? If I make it as a rap singer and writer, then why not try to produce? I don’t feel limited in any way.
Missy Elliott
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We’re told that to be fly, you gotta have a fly car, the rims on your wheels, the fly jewels, and that to work a regular job and make legal money is uncool.
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I couldn’t write because my nervous system was so bad – I couldn’t even use a pen.
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117
I still go on YouTube and watch the old performances and the ‘Soul Train’ lines. I’m still amazed by how much soul and funk the music and dancers had.
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118
I talked about my father being abusive to my mother – people have never heard me talk about anything like that. That brings people a little bit more personal with Missy.
Missy Elliott
119
Before, you only had one Public Enemy and one Rakim and one Salt ‘N’ Pepa. Now, people have got the formula, and some of them are just doing it for the cheque. It’s kind of watered down.
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120
There’s that saying: ‘God gave you talent, and if you don’t use it He’ll take it away from you.’ And I always said, ‘I don’t want God to come down and take my talents away.’ So, by using all these talents and being successful in all of them, I’ve always got something to fall back on.
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My blood pressure was always up from just overworking.
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122
The double chin‘s not good for the red carpet.
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I didn’t want to just be an artist and let someone else have all that control over me. I knew I would have to produce.
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124
I remember, in school, writing Janet Jackson and Michael Jackson and asking them to come get me out of class. I would imagine them running down the hall and asking my teacher, ‘Ms. Daniels, can we get Missy out of class? We’re here to see Missy.’
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I can’t complain. I think when you get to a certain point, you shouldn’t complain because there’s so many people who would kill to get to this point.
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I always feel the need to work as if I don’t have a deal, because that’s what’s going to keep me around for a long time.
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127
I’m blessed to be living this dream of writing and singing, but that’s not the real dream I had. The real dream was to make enough money to take care of all the pain and suffering that my mother has been through.
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128
You don’t make any money being an artist. Writing and producing? You get your money from that. You live comfortable.
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129
All of the trials and tribulations from personal to the artist. It shows that I’m human. People see the glamorous stuff, but they don’t see the background.
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130
I know that some people shy away from what I say. They think it is too blunt, but when you don’t give people that, they feel like you are being fake and you’re not telling the truth. So it’s like, you want me to tell the truth, but when I do, it’s too much for you.
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