I've always been adventurous - my wife calls me 'the Hip Hop Crocodile Hunter' - if you can survive in the hood, you can survive anywhere.Paul Wall
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I just want to be an artist. I like making music. I don't want to be the one tryin' to figure out how we're going to market the album.Paul Wall
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When you're trying to do something because you're trying to stay relevant or it's the thing to do, then it's a chore. But when you just have fun with it, then it's fun.Paul Wall
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Shout out to the greatest of all time, Eminem. Definitely appreciate the love... He gave me a few over the years.Paul Wall
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I never won any award, ever, except for a Houston Press award, but other than that, I never won an award.Paul Wall
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If I'm feeling down, I'll fake smile. I'm trying to trick my brain into being happy. It might work one out of 50 times, but I'm getting there.Paul Wall
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When I was growing up, white people made fun of me. So it was always strange to me as I would gain prominence in hip hop, white people kind of accepted me more and they would talk to me more. It's so weird to me, growing up, thinking about that in my life. It really is a complete change.Paul Wall
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Don't be so quick to turn your back on people who are fighting things. You need to be there for them.Paul Wall
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Helping teach my son right from wrong, what to do and how to be a man, just about life in general, same thing with my daughter, it's just very important to me.Paul Wall
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I was hustling out of shops kind of doing, selling music out of my trunk, selling grills out of my trunk, too. And then I teamed up with Johnny Dang, he was the local, the grill man who made them for the dentist.Paul Wall
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Whenever you ain't afraid to grind and ain't afraid to put in that work, that's a hustle, man.Paul Wall
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Family means the most to me. To me, that's the life I chose, that's the life I wanted, that's the life I dreamed of. Of course, I want cars, jewelry, a nice house and all those type of things, but the key values to me, is growing and being in a partnership, a family.Paul Wall
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I've always tried to find a silver lining. I've always been a glass is half-full kind of person.Paul Wall
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To be able to do a song with Kanye West and then a video with Hype Williams who directed the video, that's a highlight of any artist's' career.Paul Wall
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To me, one of the greatest albums I ever put out was the album I did with Statik Selektah.Paul Wall
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I think bad breath is... just hard to get past. Someone with just horrible breath, yeah. I'm not talking about just onion breath. I'm talking about you been brushing your teeth and using the mouthwash and it still smells like you've been tongue-kissing the toes of a gorilla - that's horrible.Paul Wall
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Swishahouse, it started off as just a crew making mixtapes and that's when I got down with it back in like 1998. It wasn't a record label at first. It was all just for promotion, for fun, and we just had a crew representin' for our hood.Paul Wall
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Gold teeth was just something that was popular down in Texas and around the country for a while. Growing up, it was something that you would do. You get a gold chain or watch, or grill, it was a status symbol. Like a trophy: I made it, or I made some money.Paul Wall
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I was morbidly obese, 120 pounds overweight. It was just embarrassing. I'd be on stage feeling like I was about to collapse. I'd get dizzy spells.Paul Wall
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Me and Ron C, I was cool with a lot of his family. We went to church together and one of his cousins, B Sight, that was my boy. We had a couple jobs together matter fact, we used to get down, he gave me the nickname Paul Wall. For some reason he just always called me that.Paul Wall
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When my mom grew up, her father was in the military so she grew up all over the world. She lived in Germany, Jerusalem, Switzerland, all over.Paul Wall
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I kinda washed my hands of him. I'm not worried about Mike Jones. I don't wish no bad on him and I don't hate him, but I've got to move in my own direction.Paul Wall
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I do my music for the people, for the fan base, you know they're the one's that keep me going and keep me motivated with it.Paul Wall
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I always felt like I could hold my own with anybody, period. And I always have strived to do my best.Paul Wall
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I really didn't think it was possible because there was really no one from my neighborhood that I knew or saw that made it successfully as a professional rapper. So it was like, OK, I don't know if its even possible.'Paul Wall
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When I was 12 years old, I met Bushwick Bill at the Houston Airport. He was by himself and with a whole, big ole thing of luggage - about 10 people worth of luggage. He was just sitting there by himself, asleep, knocked out at about noon or one in the afternoon. Me not knowing no better, I walk up to him, wake him up like, 'Man, you Bushwick Bill?'Paul Wall
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Whether it's in the streets or its a nine-to-five, you can be hustling in many different aspects.Paul Wall
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Hot Boyz always shouted out a lot of things relevant to Texas so I connected with it. They were our neighbors and growing up we went to Louisiana every year for Mardi Gras, Bayou Classic and the Essence festival, so we grew up taking trips to Lafayette and New Orleans. Those were three annual trips.Paul Wall
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There's health risks in anything, even if you're just drinking soda or drinking lemonade! If you drink too much lemonade you drink too much sugar and you could get diabetes.Paul Wall
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I was Overflow. Another one I had was the Caped Crusader. Chamillionaire was Payroll. That was our group back then, Payroll and the Caped Crusader. We grew up on the same street so we lived a few houses down from each other. So we knew each other pretty much all our life.Paul Wall
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Sometimes you're with a producer who just makes beats and you can kinda do your thing to whatever beats they come up with. But sometimes you get with a producer who really produces you and the music together, not just the beat then you can kinda throw in your ideas and vibe off each other.Paul Wall
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We sell a lot of jewelry, not just the grills. We got a whole line of watches, me and my boy Johnny Dane.Paul Wall
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You know, coming from a broken dysfunctional family, you know, it's something that I always aspired to be - a good husband and a good father.Paul Wall
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I always knew that if I built my name up as an entity, that would be bigger than me just rappin'.Paul Wall
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