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Never a Dull Moment - Many celebrities are known to be brashly outspoken and, this year, it was no different. From Bobby Smurda's lawyer commenting on hip hop and the judicial system, Azealia Banks's unapologetic words on the smudging of Black culture and Raven-Symoné's controversial "no labels" statement, this year was anything but dull, thanks to our favorite stars.— By Moriba Cummings(Photos from Left: Bennett Raglin/BET/Getty Images for BET, PBI/WENN.com, Nikki Nelson/WENN.com)

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Solange on the infamous elevator incident: - “What’s important is that my family and I are all good. What we had to say collectively was in the statement that we put out, and we all feel at peace with that.”(Photo: Splash News)

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Azealia Banks on cultural appropriation in hip hop and Iggy Azalea's skills: - “That Iggy Azalea s*** isn’t better than any f****** Black girl that’s rapping today… I feel like, in this country, whenever it comes to our things, like Black issues or Black politics or Black music or whatever, there’s always this undercurrent of kinda like ‘F*** you.' There’s always a ‘F*** y’all n*****. Y’all don’t really own s***. Y’all don’t have s***.'”(Photo: Lionel Urman/Splash News)

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Diddy blasts Drake on-stage for stealing "0-100": - “Somebody get this s*** on tape. I’ma play this next beat. I gave this s*** to this n****, this n***a stole this s*** from me. But at the end of the day, this s*** is hard. Play that s***!"(Photo: Mike Coppola/Getty Images)

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DJ Mister Cee on his attraction to transgender women: - “I only get with transgender women for one thing and one thing only, and that’s for oral sex. Like I said: I never had sex with a man. I never had sex with a transgender woman.”(Photo: PNP / WENN)

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Tyga blasts Young Money, Drake and Nicki Minaj: - “I’m tryna’ go independent. I don’t really get along with Drake. I don’t really get along with Nicki… I don’t like Drake as a person. He’s just fake to me.”(Photo: Michael Bezjian/WireImage)

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Michael Sam comes out as gay: - “I’m not afraid to tell the world who I am. I’m Michael Sam: I’m a college graduate. I’m African-American, and I’m gay.”(Photo: Dilip Vishwanat/Getty Images)

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Kevin Hart addresses joke dissing darker-skinned women: - “Listen, that was just me being silly on Twitter, playing on a trending topic. Some people were offended by it, but that’s always a risk with comedy. Nobody’s going to find everything funny… I’m a comedian. Being silly is my job.”(Photo: Dave M. Benett/WireImage)

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Nelly on his rumored beef with Floyd Mayweather Jr.: - “I don’t have a beef with Floyd Mayweather. I think the whole thing is misunderstood. I try to understand where he’s coming from, which is a little hard to do… It’s kind of hard talking to a guy who hasn’t graduated from high school.”(Photo: Bennett Raglin/BET/Getty Images for BET)

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Floyd Mayweather Jr. on being called uneducated: - “People are going to believe what they want to believe… When you get to this level, people are gonna take shots at you in every way possible.” (Photo: Michael Tran/FilmMagic)

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Snoop Dogg's videotaped response to Donald Sterling: - “You b****-a** redneck white bread chickens*** m****f****. F*** you, your mama and everything connected to you, you racist piece of s***. F*** you.”(Photo: WENN.com)

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50 Cent on the time when he and Beyoncé had beef: - “One time [Beyoncé] jumped off a ledge and came running over cause she thought me and Jay had issues and I’m like, ‘What the f***? Did she really just jump and run up on me like that?'"(Photo: Noam Galai/Getty Images)

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R. Kelly's youngest child Jay on coming out as transgender: - “[My mom] was very proud of me, I was like, ‘Thank you mom for accepting the fact that I’m a transgender.' And same with my sister, she told me that she was proud of me and respects me by calling me handsome and calling me her little brother now, and I love her for that, so you know it was great for me.”(Photos from left: mi_ylno_namuh via Instagram,Earl Gibson III/Getty Images for BET)

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T.I. responds to Azealia Banks's comments about his family: - “I think one thing that I have always maintained is a no tolerance policy when it comes to me and my family. I’m not [going to] wrestle with nobody… I believe she better back down off that plank ‘cause it’s sharks out there.” (Photo: Bennett Raglin/BET/Getty Images for BET)

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President Obama on Michael Brown's killing and the protests in Ferguson: - “There is never an excuse for violence against police or for those who would use this tragedy as a cover for vandalism or looting. There is also no excuse for police to use excessive force against peaceful protests or to throw protesters in jail for lawfully exercising their First Amendment rights.”(Photo: Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo)

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Nicki Minaj on her breakup from her longtime boyfriend Safaree Samuels: - “If I wasn’t a rapper, we would have children, be married and living happily… This s*** is what did it.”(Photo: Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Spring 2014)

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Raven-Symoné addresses her controversial statements from the Oprah interview: - “I never said I wasn’t Black… I want to make that very clear. I said I am not African-American. I never expected my personal beliefs and comments to spark such emotion in people. I think it is only positive when we can openly discuss race and being labeled in America.”(Photo: Rochelle Brodin/Getty Images for NYLON)

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Aretha Franklin when asked about her thoughts on Nicki Minaj: - “Nicki Minaj? Hmmm, I’m going to pass on that one.”(Photo: Monica Schipper/FilmMagic)

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Wendy Williams defends Lifetime's Aaliyah biopic despite massive backlash: - “I see my Aaliyah movie broke the Internet this weekend… Whether you loved or hated, you watched. It was the second highest rated movie on all of cable this year.”(Photo: Rommel Demano/Getty Images)

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Charles Barkley on the choking death of Eric Garner not being purposefully done: - “I don’t think they were trying to kill Mr. Garner. He was a big man and they tried to get him down.”(Photo: Mike Coppola/Getty Images)

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Beverly Johnson on being drugged by Bill Cosby: - "He offered me a cappuccino from the espresso machine... [He] promised I'd never tasted a cappuccino quite like this one... I knew by the second sip of the drink Cosby had given me that I'd been drugged — and drugged good.” (Photo:en Gabbe/Getty Images)

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Viola Davis on Annalise Keating taking off her wig in How to Get Away With Murder: - "It could be powerful and liberating, but she's got to take her wig off. Because who Annalise is in public is a big fat lie, and we have to see her taking off the armor, which is so thick, it becomes all the more dramatic when she removes it, and you see all the pain."(Photo: Valerie Macon/Getty Images)

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Gabrielle Union on sacrifices in relationships: - “Bottom line: If an issue’s a deal breaker, it’s a deal breaker. If your relationship isn’t something you’re willing to give up and you can compromise, do so.”(Photo: Mike Coppola/Getty Images)

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Chris Brown on his current relationship with Rihanna: - “Me and her are friends. We have a great understanding. There’s no issues… We’ve been friends. We’ve known each other for almost 10 years, the same amount of time I’ve been doing music. I don’t think that’s ever gonna change… We’re friends.”(Photo: Kevin Mazur/WireImage)

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Bobby Shmurda's lawyer on the government's hate for rap music: - “The government hates rap and by extension hates rappers. If his name was Joe Blow, they’d have given him a desk-appearance ticket or cut him a loose from the precinct.”(Photo: Bennett Raglin/BET/Getty Images for BET)

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Jesse Williams on Michael Brown and Ferguson police: - “I think we have to talk about the narrative and make sure we’re starting at the beginning. You will find that people doing the oppressing often want to start the narrative at a convenient point. This started with a kid getting shot and killed and left in the street for hours. I’ve never seen a white body left in the heat for four hours in the sweltering heat."(Photo: Imeh Akpanudosen/Getty Images for The Weinstein Company)

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