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Mario on feeling like he’s enabling his heroin-addicted mom, Shawn:

“By doing this type of thing, I feel like I’m saying to her, ‘It’s OK, what you’re doing is OK,’ ” the Baltimore native explains in a scene in which he takes Shawn shopping. “In the back of my mind, it would feel better if I knew I was doing this for my mother [when she were] well. I felt like after I left [the store], maybe I should have said, ‘No. Until you get better, I’m not doing anything for you.’ But sometimes it’s hard to face reality.”

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Fox News genius John Gibson on how he knew the shooter at a Cleveland High School wasn’t a hip hopper (his code word for black):

“Hip-hoppers do not kill themselves. They walk away. Now, I didn’t need to hear the kid was white with blond hair. Once he’d shot himself in the head, no hip-hopper.” Gibson later stated, “I know the shooter was white. I knew it as soon as he shot himself. Hip-hoppers don’t do that. They shoot and move on to shoot again.”

…Gibson continued: “So when I heard the kid shot himself, I said, well, you know, ordinarily I would expect it to maybe be a rapper, thug, gangster on campus with his nine — ‘I shining my nine, you know how I do.’ But, you know, it turns out it was a kid who would shoot himself — well, story over, not a black kid.”

_{If you read the transcript, you’ll note how Gibson repeatedly tries to blame it on hip hop despite the fact that the kid was a Marilyn Manson fan.}

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Talib Kweli on Mos Def’s anger at rappers for not attending the Jena Six protest:

“I agree with Mos Def as far as being critical with these artists,” Kweli explained. “I think as artists who can say something, we have to. In my career, I have been critical of artists as well. But I will say that the hip-hop generation has mobilized around the Jena Six thing. I feel like there was a lot of hip-hop activism that got the 10,000 people who were there down there. And I’m more inclined to look at what those people are doing, ’cause those are the real heroes and the real activists. These artists, man, are followers. Mos Def happens to be a leader. So he happens to be above and beyond your average artist. But your average artist is a follower. And we have to create leaders, and leaders are not going to come from young rappers.”

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A year after Rabbit was gone, I was on tour like crazy with Cash Money, and my momma said she was bored, alone, and scared in the house by herself. She was like, ‘Why don’t you just have a baby with somebody? Just tell the little girl’s mom I’ma take care of the baby, don’t worry about that.’ I was like, ‘I don’t have nobody I like like that!’ She was like, ‘Just find somebody! You don’t like Toya?’ I was like, ‘Alright, I like her then.’ Toya was 14 when she got pregnant, and I was 15 asking 14-year-olds. Toya’s the only person that agreed outta all the ones I asked. I said that my momma wants a child. And they was like, ‘That’s your momma’s problem!’ So Toya was like, ‘Shiiit, when we due, boo?

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D.L. Hughley on Don Imus and his dumb joke:

I take exception to the fact that when in our community, we’ve got people dying in the streets, especially in your area, New Jersey and Philadelphia, one of the most violent in the country, kids are dying left and right, and this is the issue we’re wasting time on. It’s ironic, the things we think are important as a society. The governor [New Jersey] almost got killed rushing to an apology for a dumb joke. He literally almost lost his life. That’s the height of irony. In the end, if he’d have died, would that have been worth it? Over an apology for a stupid joke? Is that where we’ve come? That’s dumb.

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Foxy Brown on her year-long jail sentence:

“This is just a temporary situation.” says Foxy. “I made my bed and have no problem lying in it. My will is steady. What doesn’t kill me will only make me stronger. I think there are greater injustices in America that require our immediate attention, like what’s going on in Jena, Louisiana. I will not surrender, I’m fine, free Jena Six!”

Tisha Campbell on the Duane Martin and Will Smith gay rumors:

When two brothers are successful or have influential and powerful friends, we have to emasculate them. On the real, we even did it to Oprah and Gayle. We have to get over that because at the end of the day who really cares? We have Katrina, autism and children killing one another in my hometown of Newark. I don’t know what the obsession is with celebrities, but maybe it helps people feel better about their own situation. We just know that it’s something that comes along with being in front of the camera.

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50 Cent on President Bush and war:

“Me and George Bush were both actually born on July 6, he’s just a little older than me. And he does have a talent: He has less compassion than a regular human being.” He added, “Me and George Bush are so different. … I actually go to war, when I go to war. Bush just sends [people] to war. When I took a trip to Iraq — ’cause I went to perform for the soldiers in Iraq — they had the same vehicles that I ride around in New York.”

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Kelly Rowland on her new video for, you guessed it, “Ghetto:”

I’m working with Andrew Gura on this video. It’s very, I’d say … gosh, I’m trying to get the right word out because I don’t want to sound crazy. … It’s ghetto. It’s really fly. I feel like everybody has some sort of element of ghetto in them. Think about it. Right? Wouldn’t you say so? And everyone knows what the ghetto is.”

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R. Kelly on his endless supply of “Trapped in the Closet” chapters:

“I have 51-and-a-half more chapters to bore y’all,” he said. “We just gotta get the budget to shoot ‘em all. I ain’t got no job, I got nothing else to do!”