WORD? CELEBRITY QUOTES FOR THE WEEK OF OCT. 15

Drake comes clean on who the motivation was behind the song 'Un-Thinkable.'

Drake - Last year he got nominated twice off a mixtape, but now that his debut, Thank Me Later, has finally hit stores and sold over 1 million units, the Canadian MC has doubled his nominations: he's up for Best New Artist, Best Rap Album, Best Rap Solo Performance for "Over" and Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for "Fancy."

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Drake - It is [about Minaj], I'm not gonna lie. The concept came from a conversation that we had, or conversations we have. I wrote it based off two things: Number one, based off that, and then two, based off Alicia and Swizz and their situation, and it just seemed fitting. It was like the perfect concept.

Lloyd - The only constant in life is change, and it's about evolving, and hopefully, changing for the better. I've changed a lot about me inside; there's things that you can't really see. The haircut is just, what I call the icing on the cake.

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Lloyd - The only constant in life is change, and it's about evolving, and hopefully, changing for the better. I've changed a lot about me inside; there's things that you can't really see. The haircut is just, what I call the icing on the cake.

Chelsea Handler - I don’t know, I call him Curtis when we’re having sex. No, but he does have a real name. His name is Curtis. Curtis…I don’t know, I should find out.

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Chelsea Handler - I'm not banging ... I'm not banging. He wasn't singing to me. He was singing and I saw it.

Raekwon - All of them are winners to me, honestly. I can't say who should get it and who shouldn't, because [Big Boi and Bun B] are both superstars to me. Whoever gets it, they deserve it

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Raekwon - All of them are winners to me, honestly. I can't say who should get it and who shouldn't, because [Big Boi and Bun B] are both superstars to me. Whoever gets it, they deserve it

Rihanna - I'm really amazed that she can write like that. [Nicki] not only raps but she can write songs too. It was really easy actually. We were going back and forth with the texts on how we were going to get to do it because we were in two different places and had two opposite schedules.

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Rihanna - I'm really amazed that she can write like that. [Nicki] not only raps but she can write songs too. It was really easy actually. We were going back and forth with the texts on how we were going to get to do it because we were in two different places and had two opposite schedules.

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‘I’m Not Rich, Rich’ - If you need to borrow some cash, you better not holla at Spike Lee. He says he's no baller like Oprah, Will Smith, Bill Gates or Steven Spielberg. Spike owns houses in New York's Upper East Side and on Martha's Vineyard, and he sends his kids to private school. Spike doesn’t sound like common folk to me. It’s not like he eats “Oodles of Noodles” every night.

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Spike Lee - For me, I don't think it's just lyrical flow, I think it's content. I put a high premium on the words. What are you saying?

Rick Ross - I Iove it, it's like the Pro Bowl to the NFL, everybody wants to get to Hawaii. It's a roundtable that I could truly say I respect the integrity of the roundtable and the dudes that are actually out there.

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Rick Ross - I Iove it, it's like the Pro Bowl to the NFL, everybody wants to get to Hawaii. It's a roundtable that I could truly say I respect the integrity of the roundtable and the dudes that are actually out there.

Nelly: November 2 - The hip-hop star turns 36.

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Nelly - With me, I always wanted to come in and just do me. So beefs and all that s**t ? Unless it's personal - I mean, don't get it twisted cuz, I'm from St. Louis, you know what I'm saying. We get it in.

Freed, Facing Deportation - Rapper Jamal "Shyne" Barrow was released from prison Tuesday after serving 10 years for a club shooting, but he was quickly taken into custody by immigration officials who may deport him to his native Belize because of his felony rap sheet. While in prison, Shyne changed his name to Moses Leviy in recognition of his Jewish mother. His father is now the prime minister of Belize.

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Shyne - It's crazy because I got a letter out too. And that's on MTV.com. It's on a blog journal I'm doing for them. It's crazy. I wrote my letter about a week or two ago so when I heard [about Nas' e-mail], the last person I spoke to told me about it. I definitely support his position and that's what happened to hip-hop.

Lupe Fiasco - People are trapped in the culture where music needs to be free and you don't need to pay for it. I was just at Princeton, speaking at Cornel West's class, and someone asked that. They asked about the relationship between blogs and artists. I told them, at a bare minimum it costs me, literally out of my own pocket, it costs me $3,000 to $4,000 to make a song. It costs me about $700 to $800 to make a freestyle. I'm giving you that.

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Lupe Fiasco - We just came to a reconciliation, saw both sides of the argument of what was going down, found a midway point that we can all agree on, and we're rolling.

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A Quick Change - According to the Evening Standard, OutRage! said they won’t picket an Eminem concert if Slim doesn’t perform lyrics that inspire hatred against gay people. Per Wireless spokesman, David Allison, Em agreed to the censorship after being guaranteed that there won’t be any protest.

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Eminem - I felt like I was being attacked. I was being singled out and I felt like, 'Is it because the color of my skin? Is it because of that you're paying more attention?' Because there's certain rappers that do and say the same things I'm saying and I don't hear anyone saying [anything] about that.

Jennifer Hudson - Each city we go to, my suitcase won’t hold my new clothes, so we have to box them up and ship them home. Then I get back and want to try on everything I bought, so clothes are just everywhere. It got to a point where I could barely get in my bedroom. And when did I realize I had a problem? Well, my bed is a canopy. I had nowhere else to throw the clothes. So I threw them on top of the canopy!

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Jennifer Hudson - One more baby. I want a girl so bad, but give me another three to four years.

Tyler Perry - There has been a lot of Internet chatter about me doing this film. I've heard everything from, 'I'm glad he's doing it!' to 'How dare he touch this!' Believe me, I know that this is sensitive material and I handled it that way. If you don't believe me see for yourself on November 5th.

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Tyler Perry - There has been a lot of Internet chatter about me doing this film. I've heard everything from, 'I'm glad he's doing it!' to 'How dare he touch this!' Believe me, I know that this is sensitive material and I handled it that way. If you don't believe me see for yourself on November 5th.

Boris Kodjoe - It's something that has been taken care of a while ago. The press got wind of it way late, after it's been already done and arranged and everything is taken care of. No worries. People don't have to be concerned about me.

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Boris Kodjoe - It's something that has been taken care of a while ago. The press got wind of it way late, after it's been already done and arranged and everything is taken care of. No worries. People don't have to be concerned about me.

Brandon T. Jackson - I can't say I haven't been caught up. I've had strippers rob me. This world is a dirty place, but at the same time it always comes back. I'm not the perfect guy; if y'all want that then fine. You can holla at Nick Cannon for that.

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Brandon T. Jackson - I can't say I haven't been caught up. I've had strippers rob me. This world is a dirty place, but at the same time it always comes back. I'm not the perfect guy; if y'all want that then fine. You can holla at Nick Cannon for that.

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John Legend - So what do we do? Give up? Move to Finland (#1 across the board)? Canada (#2 in reading and science)? Shrug our shoulders and blame the kids and their parents? No, we can't afford to do that. Ensuring that ALL American children can access a quality education is the civil rights issue of our time. We cannot stand idly by and allow this institutionalized inequality to continue.

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John Legend - So what do we do? Give up? Move to Finland (#1 across the board)? Canada (#2 in reading and science)? Shrug our shoulders and blame the kids and their parents? No, we can't afford to do that. Ensuring that ALL American children can access a quality education is the civil rights issue of our time. We cannot stand idly by and allow this institutionalized inequality to continue.

Willis McGahee - I was expecting a little flack, but I wasn't expecting for it to be like this and have everybody trying to dig up dirt on you and posting all of these comments. I'm from Miami so I've been through this. I've been hated on by girls, and dudes hating on me because of the girls. It's been like this all of my life.

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Willis McGahee - I was expecting a little flack, but I wasn't expecting for it to be like this and have everybody trying to dig up dirt on you and posting all of these comments. I'm from Miami so I've been through this. I've been hated on by girls, and dudes hating on me because of the girls. It's been like this all of my life.

Raz-B - For all you pedophiles out there: You Eddie Longs, you Marques Houstons, you Chris Stokeses, you’re going to burn in hell with gasoline in your draws if you don’t repent.

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Raz-B - For all you pedophiles out there: You Eddie Longs, you Marques Houstons, you Chris Stokeses, you’re going to burn in hell with gasoline in your draws if you don’t repent.

Christina Milian - The first month, I lost weight drastically. On top of that, she cooked me a lot of raw vegetables and raw salads and proteins — and it worked! I also drank a lot of water.

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Christina Milian - The first month, I lost weight drastically. On top of that, she cooked me a lot of raw vegetables and raw salads and proteins — and it worked! I also drank a lot of water.

T.I. - I'm gonna take it a day at a time. I got a little while to plan. One thing I'm not gonna do is, I'm not gonna talk and make a whole lot of promises and do this or do that. I'm gonna speak more through my music and my actions. And I'm gonna let God lead me wherever that may be.

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T.I. - I'm not taking any credit. It could have been resolved in another way. The fact of the matter is God put me in a position, and put in my spirit to be in the position to help, and I can't take any credit for that...I didn't wake up this morning with the intentions of going down and helping hostage negotiators talk someone down off a ledge.