You can have a phenomenal booth artist and he can get in there and be a technician in … - Joell Ortiz

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I feel like being nerd is not about the superficial quality; it's about how nerds approach life. It's much more emotional and mental than it is you're some fat guy living in your mom's basement, which I think is just a hacky stereotype.

Joell Ortiz

You can have a phenomenal booth artist and he can get in there and be a technician in the booth and it won't translate on the stage. I think that's what makes emcees emcees. Some rapper dudes are great rappers but it don't translate on stage.

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I'm really, really, really, really conservative with money. I got to give myself a lot of excuses to spend money, because I come from nothin'.

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You owe dough? You ain't give up that cheese? Hey. . . Sooner or later, you'll Pay, Pal (no eBay).

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Hip-hop definitely saved my life. Being able to write about the things I was doing, the things I was seein' and all that stuff, putting that on paper and coming into my own as Joell Ortiz. That's why I don't have a stage name, because I chose to talk about everything under the sun that happened to me or next to me in my music.

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I don't hate any sort of music but I just think that the lyricism needs to be in the forefront.

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I've always been able to write rhymes and that would be like when you consult with your girl. When I'm mad and s - t like that I would throw headphones on and close my room door, when I'm mad I just close the door with my girl and f - k her. In so many different ways hip-hop has been like my girl and it's always been there to hold me down.

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