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DMC on Heavy D  - "He was like the Smokey Robinson of hip hop." (Photo: Gregg DeGuire/PictureGroup)

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Nicki Minaj on working with Versace  - "It's just a big deal because they've been clothing the hip hop generation for a very, very long time. Whether we could afford it or not, we wanted it." (Photo: Mark Davis/PictureGroup)

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Jay-Z on assuming daddy duty  - “Of course, of course [I'll change my baby's diapers].” (Photo: Jamie McCarthy/WireImage)

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Drake on the ideal woman\r  - “Who's the ideal girl? She is very funny, very supportive, understands that right now I'm trying to build with somebody. The ideal girl is driven, working on something other than modeling or being a singer ...”\r(Photo: David Becker/WireImage)

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Dr. Dre on taking a breaking from music   - “I think I’m going to wrap it up for a minute. I’ve been working on music for 27 years now and the longest I’ve been out of the studio in 27 years has been two weeks.” (Photo: Phil McCarten/PictureGroup)

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Erick Sermon on his recent heart attack\r  - “I went upstairs and I sat on the sofa. And I got two sharp pains on my left-hand side, and I said, ‘Well, maybe I’m sitting wrong.’… I sat for a minute and then I started getting heart palpitations.”\r (Photo: Jason Kempin/Getty Images)

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Juelz Santana on his recent arrest  - "How many mugshots they gonna take of me smfh!!! 46K bail. Police impounded my Bentley so I guess I gotta bring the rose out! f**k they thought that was my only car.” (Photo: Andrew Marks/PictureGroup)

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Sherri Shepard on searching for a surrogate  - “We have a fertility appointment next week, so if your uterus is free I’m looking for somebody to carry my eggs and his sperm.”(Photo: S.Bergman/JPegFoto)

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Pete Rock on Heavy D  - “I think Hev was the most proud when I made him hit records [laughs]. He made sure I got paid, he loved having family in the business that he could actually trust. I did a lot of co-producing for him, from the Big Time album on.”(Photo: Jerritt Clark/WireImage)

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Chrissy Lampkin on attacking Kimberly “Kimbella” Vanderhee\r  - “I’m human and I love hard. I saw my friend being hurt and that’s what I reacted to. I know it’s about self-control and I'm working on it.”\r (Photo: D. Salters/WENN.com)

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Fat Joe’s letter to Big Pun\r  - “Right now you probably would have had like 20 platinum albums. To this day, they couldn’t catch your flow. I’m still trying to be better than you …”\r (Photo: Bryan Bedder/Getty Images)

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Tamar Braxton on having plastic surgery\r  - “Please print this: I would like to say I did not have series of work done. I just had my nose done. These are my lips. Everybody forgets we have full lips — I’m a Black girl, sorry.”\r (Photo: Paras Griffin /Landov)