WORD? CELEBRITY QUOTES FOR THE WEEK OF SEPT. 10

Nicki Minaj explains what drove her to her fake marriage to Drake.

Advantage: Drake - Drake's teamed up with Young Money/Universal Motown for a reported $2 million. Young Money/Universal will house Drake's hip-hop debut, "Thank Me Later."

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Drake - Nah, that was just my cousin, she just looks like her. How did this conversation switch? [laughs] It was all so professional, let's keep it a hundred. I love older women, though. I love experience and maturity and the conversation. I like to learn from an individual, like, when we converse, I like to really be able to soak it all in, the knowledge, the wisdom, all that. You know what I mean?

B.o.B. - I feel like being nominated for a Grammy is something that's more about the music to me than anything else. It's great. It's just like a party. It's like being in the locker room after a football game that you won.

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B.o.B - It's amazing. I think out of everything that I've experienced in my entire career, opening up that night was when it finally set in. I was like, 'Whoa.'

50 Cent - You know what's interesting? I look at that platform as another place to express yourself in a different way, to entertain. Not necessarily to create a perception of your actual character, but to be entertaining. When other people used it, it was boring because they were trying to be safe, be politically correct.

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50 Cent - You know what's interesting? I look at that platform as another place to express yourself in a different way, to entertain. Not necessarily to create a perception of your actual character, but to be entertaining. When other people used it, it was boring because they were trying to be safe, be politically correct.

Soulja Boy - I thought that he was taking shots at me, when it was just jokes. It was a misunderstanding, a mis-communication. I'm about making money.

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Soulja Boy - I thought that he was taking shots at me, when it was just jokes. It was a misunderstanding, a mis-communication. I'm about making money.

Nicki Minaj - It does, it does. But the thing that I want to promote is that if you see someone doing their thing, give them their props. We all have it hard and face the same challenges as female emcees. Show some mutual love and respect for each other so that it doesn’t get nasty. And she can be a nasty character.

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Nicki Minaj - Drake is just my little brother and I kid with him all the time. That's all. Yes, yes, we were just being crazy and I think we were a little bit bored. I wouldn't say we were bored, but we were being just mischievous.

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Foxy Brown - I always knew I was innocent. And this is all about jealousy.

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Foxy Brown - I always knew I was innocent. And this is all about jealousy.

Bun B - [I see] the hunger and the passion for what he's doing. It's still all very new to him so he's really trying to embrace as much of it as he can without taking on too much too early. There's just so many great opportunities available for him. He's really just trying to make as much good music as he can.

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Bun B - [I see] the hunger and the passion for what he's doing. It's still all very new to him so he's really trying to embrace as much of it as he can without taking on too much too early. There's just so many great opportunities available for him. He's really just trying to make as much good music as he can.

DMX - I shouldn't have done it. I wasn't done with the program. They let me out to do the show. I should have protected myself better.

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DMX - I don't even know who the worst is, but he has to be one of the worst. I mean 'Bruh Bruh?' Serious? that has to be one of the worst. How do you even fix your mouth to say that or spell that?

Wyclef Jean - I am feeling much better and thank you to all my Fans and warriors for your love around the World! I will be back soon stronger then ever.

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Wyclef Jean - If I was president….I got a message for Sean Penn, maybe he ain’t see me in Haiti because he was too busy sniffing cocaine.

Snoop Dogg - I'm the first hip-hop rock star. The others, they do what they do, but they don't do what I do.

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Snoop Dogg - I'm the first hip-hop rock star. The others, they do what they do, but they don't do what I do.

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Gucci Mane - The mixtape came out, 700,000 downloads in, I think, 30 minutes. Some people say it's my best mixtape ever. There's definitely a lot of songs that I could have put on my album on this mixtape.

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Gucci Mane - The mixtape came out, 700,000 downloads in, I think, 30 minutes. Some people say it's my best mixtape ever. There's definitely a lot of songs that I could have put on my album on this mixtape.

Secret Entrance - Trey Songz enters club Amnesia discreetly.

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Trey Songz - The 'usual' is whatever is expected. 'I know you're tired of the usual,' that's what the song is saying, 'I could give you more than the usual.' The 'unusual' is spoken about all through the record: That's rooftops. That's pool tables. That's car hoods. That's restaurant bathrooms — that's taking it beyond.

Whoopi Goldberg - My brother and I were very, very lucky to have her in our lives. So I'm not sad, because she had a great time.

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Whoopi Goldberg - My brother and I were very, very lucky to have her in our lives. So I'm not sad, because she had a great time.

Regina King - Since the Emmy ceremony, I have been going back and forth about whether or not I should compose this letter. I try hard in my daily life not to engage in uncomfortable situations regarding race. But sometimes it's very difficult to find other reasons that better explain why certain events play out the way they do. It is impossible for me to ignore the published statistics regarding the number of people of color mentioned, celebrated or honored in the history of the televised Emmys.

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Regina King - Since the Emmy ceremony, I have been going back and forth about whether or not I should compose this letter. I try hard in my daily life not to engage in uncomfortable situations regarding race. But sometimes it's very difficult to find other reasons that better explain why certain events play out the way they do. It is impossible for me to ignore the published statistics regarding the number of people of color mentioned, celebrated or honored in the history of the televised Emmys.

Jason Derulo - Last year, I went to the MTV Awards, I sat all the way in the back. This year, I'm nominated for two awards. It's incredible. I've watched these awards my whole entire life, so to be finally a part of it is a dream come true. Pinch me, please.

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Jason Derulo - Last year, I went to the MTV Awards, I sat all the way in the back. This year, I'm nominated for two awards. It's incredible. I've watched these awards my whole entire life, so to be finally a part of it is a dream come true. Pinch me, please.

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Ke$ha - This is such a monumental thing for me to be nominated, because it really means people do really like what I'm doing.

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Ke$ha - This is such a monumental thing for me to be nominated, because it really means people do really like what I'm doing.

Jay-Z - My first album didn't come out 'til I was 26, so for so long I ignored that talent. It took a bit of luck. The people I was with daily — a personal friend of mine went to jail for 12 years. And me and him would be together every single day. So I know that same fate was awaiting me. We would have got picked up the same day. If I wasn't pursuing music I would have been in jail for 12 years.

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Jay-Z - First off, I heard the record first, before I knew that it was recorded by a 9-year-old. I was like, 'Man, that record is a smash.'

Nelly - [Me and Em, it was] a misunderstanding. Me being young in the game. Somebody said something that said something, and I reacted to it. Being young to the game and being real influential, and not checking to see if that's what it was - which it wasn't.

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Nelly - Out of 5 albums that dropped I only had one that didn't sell over 4 million; every other record I did sold 4 million plus. I think it's just one of those things where when you succeed so much people almost want to see you not succeed on a high level or they expect you to; they stop looking at it as an accomplishment and start looking at it as a requirement."

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 - I don't care about Pitchfork's 8.1 or 6.2 or whatever, The Rolling Stone's five stars or four stars. Jay-Z said I was nice, so as a rapper I'm good. And I'm better than you. And I can really rap. And you'll even say that I'm better than you. And just when you think that I'm not...go to sleep!

Kanye West on the media - "If the media wants to make a story … just say I have atrocious spelling and terrible grammar…"

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Kanye West - Yo man Loyd Banks prolly the most underrated MC in the game... Man he deserve to be top 5 at least!

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Ice Cube - It's a lot of MCs out there, it's not dissing [them]. I guess when you mention these MCs that's at the top of the game and you mention yourself in there, you letting [people] know you on top of your game too. It's on that tip. It's just fresh, fly-a** lines. I couldn't let them go once I thought of them; I had to write them down. But it's not dissing.

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Ice Cube - It's a lot of MCs out there, it's not dissing [them]. I guess when you mention these MCs that's at the top of the game and you mention yourself in there, you letting [people] know you on top of your game too. It's on that tip. It's just fresh, fly-a** lines. I couldn't let them go once I thought of them; I had to write them down. But it's not dissing.

Ludacris - "My Chick Bad,", his collaboration with Nicki Minaj, and "How Low" received a nominations for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group and Best Rap Solo Performance respectively.

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Ludacris - We're just getting started, so I don't want to give too much information in terms of direction and stuff. I'll have that information soon. I just don't want to give people the wrong impression.

Charlie Wilson - Kanye started to play some of his new songs and we were only supposed to do one track, but we ended up doing three that day. We started tripling the vocals, but I told him, 'This is just day one; I don't know if I'm finished... we should do more.'

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Charlie Wilson - Kanye started to play some of his new songs and we were only supposed to do one track, but we ended up doing three that day. We started tripling the vocals, but I told him, 'This is just day one; I don't know if I'm finished... we should do more.'

Ne-Yo - Sometimes the people surrounding you, get you in more trouble than you yourself do. I ain't down talk nobody, I spoke my opinion because I was asked it. Half of y'all speak your opinion whether somebody asks you or not! I got no beef wit T.I. or his team.

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Ne-Yo - Sometimes the people surrounding you, get you in more trouble than you yourself do. I ain't down talk nobody, I spoke my opinion because I was asked it. Half of y'all speak your opinion whether somebody asks you or not! I got no beef wit T.I. or his team.

Lloyd Banks - I was completely ready to say f*ck it. 50 [Cent's] whole thing was just, 'Push on, push on.' But he didn't grow up with his mother and his father. Seeing my life pass before my eyes, it was like, no matter how much sh*t you have or how good you're doing, you're going to go through this and be devastated.

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Lloyd Banks - I had a chance to talk to Ashanti over the telephone. I mean, my reasoning for apologizing, I just felt like I should. Even at the time when we were going back and forth in that feud with Murder Inc., she wasn't speaking. She wasn't throwing shots or anything. I think if you're a part of the game then you should get played.