Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.
Often people become our friend or follower with an undercurrent of resentment in our having more success than they have. They secretly desire the opportunity to take us down a notch; they have a nose for any misstep on our part they can exploit.
Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.
Always having to have the last word is a bad trait. Pisses people off.
This rap game is just WWF; everybody wants points off somebody else.
Anything you can do I can do better, I can do anything better than you.
I knew better, even as a child, than to even attempt to compete with Donald.
When men sit around and talk, they are very competitive. One person will tell an anecdote and the next person will try to top that. When you get six women together, they share a lot more. They will be far more interested in what the other person has to say. The conservation is more interactive and less about individually showing off.
There was always sibling rivalry. Tennis, football, boxing, whatever - you always want to come out on top of big sis.
It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else.
I'm Howard Stern with a vocabulary. I'm the man he wishes he could be.
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.
It looked to me like a vamp version of a pissing contest. Men will be boys.
I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not.
Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
Just as I wanted to outdo everyone when I played, I had to outdo everyone when we were out on the town.
You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.
You want baby daddy to be one step ahead of you. Which they can't be, so it's a weird thing to ask for. But I have.
Oh yeah, the preacher's kid has to be the baddest one. If everyone is smoking weed, we've got to smoke crack. If you're throwing rocks, we've got to throw bigger rocks
I'm never satisfied unless I get the last word.
My plan is to show everyone that Tony Harrison is not on my level.
I'm always trying to figure out ways to one up everyone, and that's what I love about competitions. I love challenging myself and pushing the envelope.
Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you.
Underground people pay a desperate toll finding out things nobody else has discovered yet. We run around like headless chickens looking for the next cultural fix to spiral around in before it gets appropriated somewhere else and becomes something it never was. There's this sort of one-upmanship in the underground.
If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.
