Tech N9ne Quotes

“People need each other to help each other up. But we can’t stand near each other because we fear each other. When you get over fear, nothing matters anymore but love.”

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“Since I can remember, being different was always hard around normal people. That’s just how it is, whether you have vitiligo, a deformity, or a different way of thinking or dressing. It’s going to always be weird for normal people.”

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“Some people like the dark music I do. The dark music is my life; it isn’t make believe.”

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“I originally got my name after a gun because the way I rap; a gangster gave me the name in 1988.”

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“I feel fuzzy inside when I see good people make it.”

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“Guns are going to be here until the end of time; the underworld is going to be here until the end of time. It’s just a sad reality that dumb people use them.”

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“Snow Tha Product was dope. She wanted me on a song, so I did it for her. I ain’t charge her nothing.”

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“I will not change what I am for no amount of money or just kudos for my peers.”

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“As I got older, I started realizing that though people differ in skin tone, religious beliefs, cultures, and food, one thing we all have in common is emotions, so I tapped into emotions.”

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“When you think you have something special, you can’t be the only one what thinks it; everybody else has to agree.”

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“I found The Doors, and thank God I found The Doors because it inspired me to do Strange Music, and it saved my life.”

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“I feel like breaking barriers is necessary because man created barriers, which keep us separated as human beings.”

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“It’s difficult to stay relevant for many years, but I’ve somehow managed to do so. I’m honest and provocative.”

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“I’m not a horrorcore rapper. I rap my life, but I love horror movies.”

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“I don’t know what genre out there that I would be afraid to do. If I am afraid to do it, that’s not my cup of tea. It ain’t much that’s not my cup of tea.”

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“When you’re in your own world, you don’t know what’s outside your world, so you can do whatever you want.”

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“As long as my brain and heart are working, I’m good.”

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“You have to distance yourself from hate, period.”

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“Me and Twenty One Pilots would be wonderful.”

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“A lot of people got a lot of money around Kansas City, Missouri. If we didn’t, KC Trends would be out of business.”

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“I don’t really put cars in my videos because I’m always flying or on a tour bus.”

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“You want to have a good job so you can make good money. You want to make good money so you can buy nice things. You want to have nice things so you can impress a nice woman.”

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“I was always against starting the show with new material because the fans don’t know it. They just look at you, and it’s not explosive.”

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“I’ve been around since 1985. When the Jordan shoe came out.”

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“The master race, for real, is money. Money can buy you anything.”

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“I’m the complete technique of rhyme. I don’t have no boundaries.”

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“I write in a mathematical manner. For some of my songs, I rhyme every syllable. It’s a science.”

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“I’ve been Tech N9ne since ’88.”

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“When you look at the teachings of the Bible, it’s pretty dark with Revelations, the Holy Ghost and everything, so hence the darkness upon me on my records.”

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“My mom and my aunties are really devout Christians. My mom married a Muslim when I was 12, so I got teachings from both sides and then other sides because I wanted to find out which way to go. So not only Christianity and Islam, but Confucianism, Shintoism, Taoism, Buddhism, and Judaism. I tried to read everything.”

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“Halloween is my favorite holiday. It’s like my Christmas.”

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“I’m only at home for, like, a month when I’m doing an album – at the most.”

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“My love for music is infinite.”

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“OutKast. For them to come back together to rap with me and my brother Krizz Kaliko would be ginormous.”

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“I know how to do music, no matter how weird I look on stage with the face paint, mask, and hospital scrubs.”

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“I’m independent. I use my own money. For everything.”

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“When it came to music growing up, it wasn’t just gospel and R&B. My uncle brought rock n’ roll to me when I was younger, and I loved it. I was open to all music.”

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“My backpack is signed by three members of The Doors. I did a song with Robby Kreiger, John Desmore, and Ray Manzarek. I made my dream come true.”

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“We are blessed to not have violence at our shows. People come to our shows and act a clown. When you do music, you have no control who comes to your shows. I’m sure they have fights at Miley Cyrus shows.”

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“What I found out is, I need complete autonomy. I can’t have nobody looking over my shoulder saying I can’t say this or that.”

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“The beautiful thing about being independent and having my own label is I can say whatever the hell I want.”

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“I’m from Kansas City, Missouri. No one has to give a damn about my story.”

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“When I have 7,000 people plus at Red Rock just for a show of mine, I think it’s wonderful to get that many people to come see you.”

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“The reason why people still come to Tech N9ne shows is because they never know what to expect. They know it’s gonna be something wild. From generation to generation, I’ve seen it. The parents are bringing the kids, and then the kids start comin’ themselves. It’s crazy, man.”

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“I take pride in lyrics. I take pride in music and staying on beat and being on key.”

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“My biggest challenge in my career is not looking or sounding like anybody.”

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“People on YouTube say they don’t think people should mix genres. Those are the same people who don’t think they should mix races. It’s gonna always be that, but you can only pray that music can bring everybody together as one.”

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“I’ve been around so long that I’ve seen rappers make it and plummet.”

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“I feel like I’m Dracula, dude, like, um… Nosferatu, you know.”

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“My quest has always been to get my story to the rest o’ the people.”

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“Got so much to say, such little time.”

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“I would love to have Mystikal on Strange Music when he gets outta jail.”

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“I write from my heart, so everything I say, I say with force.”

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“I’m the Wi-Fi, so I get everybody connected. I’m trying to let the whole world know that I can keep it connected if you get with me, you know what I’m saying?”

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“I always sacrifice myself for the love of all my people.”

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“I was not an athlete, but I was a break-dancer. I was a beatboxer, an entertainer.”

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“The one question I would have for Donald Trump is inspired by his ‘Make America Great Again’ cap. I would ask him, ‘When was America great? When did America not have an economic depression or a war?’”

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“If I didn’t have to do press, I would not.”

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“I want everybody to know my name because I feel like I give so much of my heart and my soul in my music.”

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“I don’t really want to do movies, but I tried. I don’t feel like acting is my thing; I think music is my strong area.”

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“Yes, I want to work with Rick Rubin. Yes, I want to work with Trent Reznor. Yes, I want to work with Madlib. Yes, I want to get with all these wonderful people. Collie Buddz, Marsha Ambrosius. I just want to go, man. I’m gonna keep on making music.”

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“We had a nine-piece choir on ‘Aw Yeah.’”

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“I have a certain comfort with the darkness now because it’s been so relevant in my life for so long, with my mom being sick and finally passing and the people changing as you get bigger and bigger. So ‘A Certain Comfort’ is about that. You can bring all the evil you want – I’ma make it disappear.”

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“We have darkness as human beings.”

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“I’m looking for 100 percent proof that there’s a spiritual realm, and I ain’t seen nothing in my 43 years of living but humans. So until that day, I’ll be waiting.”

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“I wanted to be a psychiatrist.”

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“When dubstep came out, I loved it.”

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“I wanted to be Ice Cube when I was younger.”

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“People would be surprised to know that I watch ‘Sex and the City,’ ‘The L Word,’ and ‘Girls.’ I like women; why wouldn’t I like all those?”

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“I’ma work with Kanye. I’ma try my damndest.”

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“I’m a builder. I build ideas and give them to the people, and they receive them in such a wonderful way.”

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“I did something that I told people around me never to do, which was, pay a psychiatrist. Why pay a psychiatrist when you can just come to me? I can help you with something going on in your life; even if I know nothing about you, I can possibly help you. That’s just me being cocky like I am.”

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“People’s outlook on Kansas City is always like, ‘They let you rap in K.C.?’ Or ‘How’s Dorothy and Toto?’ They put Kansas and Kansas City together, when it’s really separate.”

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“Whenever you can take something positive and make something good out of it, that’s what I’m all about.”

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“I’m a different type of rapper. I work more than the average rapper.”

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“Taking pictures and stuff, I’m kind of like, shy, but you couldn’t tell onstage.”

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“For many different reasons, my number one favorite horror movie is ‘Halloween II.’ I love the way it’s shot, and I love the way the synthesizer sounds on the score.”

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“My favorite vampire movie used to be Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula,’ but now ’30 Days of Night’ took its place. I think it’s brilliant that somebody would be so thoughtful as to put these vampires in a place like Barrow, Alaska, where there are actually ’30 Days of Night.’”

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“My favorite zany horror flick is ‘Evil Dead 2.’ Sam Raimi is awesome! I saw this back in the day when I was younger. ‘Evil Dead’ was actually scary, and ‘Evil Dead 2’ was zany as hell. I don’t really watch ‘Army of Darkness’ though.”

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“When I was signed to Quincy Jones before I went independent, he told me to rap what you know, and people will forever feel you. And I stuck to that, no matter how many people called me a devil worshiper, no matter how many people call me a cult leader. I stuck with rapping about what I know.”

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“With my face paint on, I don’t look like a regular black dude.”

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“I’ve always been an elite artist.”

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“I love Lil Wayne for even having people look my way.”

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“Nnutthowze was a group I was in back when I wa,s like, 18, 19 maybe. It was DJ Icy Rock, my deceased friend Brian Dennis, the mastermind behind it, and a host of other cats.”

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“Just because Lil Wayne made it cool don’t mean that I’m a start wearin’ the small pants or I’m gonna start doin’ the dance songs.”

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“Everybody’s darkness is different. My darkness came from my mom having pancreatitis and almost dyin’. And what I noticed was that the darkness ain’t goin’ nowhere.”

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“When MC Hammer came out, I was wearing parachute pants and patent leather shoes and a high top fade with a blonde streak in it like Kwame.”

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“When I first spit my first rhyme in public on my school bus, I had an audience.”

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“Busta Rhymes has been around for centuries. He’s one of the original vampires.”

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“My uncles listened to rock and roll like Led Zeppelin. We had MTV, so I saw Adam Ant and Boy George and Def Leppard.”

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“Music is music – it makes no difference what it is. I can like Slipknot and Public Enemy equally.”

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“I love it when you hear a band, and you just go, ‘Yes! I never knew it, but that’s exactly what I want to hear.’”

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“All of the Doors’ albums are great. I could go on and on about everything that band did. ‘L.A. Woman’ is phenomenal. But I have to say, ‘Strange Days’ is it for me. That’s the one I always gotta listen to.”

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“I’ve always been like a black hippie.”

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“I’m inside out. I’m transparent. I’m open for the world to see.”

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“The crazy thing about me, man, I feel like I’m a normal guy. But, maybe I’m a little abnormal when it comes to talent or something.”

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“Every time I come out, there’s more and more people paying attention, so I gotta show out every time.”

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“I’ve always been strange; I’ve always been slightly to the left, like ‘weirdo’ to other people, I guess.”

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“I know, if I’m speaking to God in any kind of way, I keep myself from using profanity.”

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