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B. Rabbit: Hey Sol, do you ever wonder at what point you just got to say fuck it man like when you gotta stop living up here and start living down here?
Sol: It's 7.30 in the morning dawg.

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B. Rabbit: Mom, you gotta stop living your life like this.

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Jimmy Smith Jr: Hey, Lily, hey baby what are you still doing up?
[picking her up]
Lily Smith: You woke me up, you know?
Jimmy Smith Jr: Oh, I'm sorry baby. Let's go back to bed.
Lily Smith: Can you sing for me?
Jimmy Smith Jr: Yeah, of course I will.
[singing, he carries her in her room]
Jimmy Smith Jr: I know this girl, her name is Lily. And it's passed her bed t-i-m-e. She goes to sleep and she can just dream, and not have to be in a stinky trailer wit me. And when I feel blue, i know what to do, I look at you and I just say.

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B. Rabbit: [rapping] ... Don't ever try to judge me dude / You don't know what the fuck I've been through / But I know something about you / You went to Cranbrook - that's a private school / What's the matter, dog? / You're embarrassed? / This guy's a gangster? / His real name is Clarence / Now Clarence lives at home wit both parents / And Clarence parents have a real good marriage...

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Jimmy Smith Jr, Future: [DJ Iz is rambling on about the abandoned houses in Detroit]
[Jimmy and Future look at each other all confused]
Jimmy Smith Jr, Future: What the fuck is he talking about?

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Lyckety-Splyt: Aight, leaders of the Free World in the mutha fuckin' house!
[Lyckety-Splyt rambles on about the Free World while cracking jokes about Future and Sol]
Future: [whispers to Cheddar Bob] Man, fuck the Free World!
Cheddar Bob: [shouts] YEAH! FUCK THE FREE WORLD!
Lyckety-Splyt: Fuck the Free World?
Sol: [after the fight, B-Rabbit's group walks away, and Sol shoves Cheddar Bob] I should fuck you up, Cheddar!
Cheddar Bob: Future said it!

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Sol: [Rabbit's car has just shorted out, the group is standing on the street while Rabbit is fixing the car] I ain't gettin' back in that piece of shit...

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Alex: [Alex and Jimmy are sitting near the burning house] It's almost beautiful.
Jimmy Smith Jr: When I was younger, I always wanted to live in a house like this, when it was used to be.

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Stephanie: If you want to live here, you have to get along wit Greg.
Jimmy Smith Jr: He started.
Stephanie: You can't fuck this up for me baby, you just can't.
Jimmy Smith Jr: Whatever.

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Jimmy Smith Jr: I don't give a fuck, man. I'm sick of you always thinking to know what's best for me, dog. You ain't my fucking father. I'm a grown man.
Future: Look, Jimmy...
Jimmy Smith Jr: Look, Jimmy, nothing. Fuck you. I told you not to fucking sign me up.
Future: What the fuck, you wanna fight me now, huh?
Jimmy Smith Jr: You ain't the future of shit, bitch. You're just David fuckin' Porter.
Future: [long pause] You know what? Do what the fuck you wanna do, 'cause I don't give a shit anymore. I really fuckin' don't.

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DJ Iz: That's why brothers need to sign themselves a deal. I'm telling you record labels supply niggers with the kind of benefits they need.
Sol: Dawg. We sign us a deal you can take the motherfucking benefits, we're talking Bentley's and Benjamins not Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
Future: Look to tell you all niggers the truth, I don't give a fuck about none of that. I just wanna hit 31 and a 3rd on the box you know what I'm saying? One of them strong songs on JLB.
DJ Iz: No what we need to do is save that shit up and put it into some savings bonds every week, stack it and build our own studio.
Future: Savings Bonds?
Sol: [to DJ] Let me ask you a question Dawg. How the fuck are we brothers? We need fine bitches and fat rides not no godamn savings bonds.
Jimmy Smith Jr: Man that's all we ever do is talk shit.
[imitating Sol]
Jimmy Smith Jr: We need to get fine btiches and fat rides,
[imitating DJ]
Jimmy Smith Jr: No, what weed to do is put our money in savings bonds,
[imitating future]
Jimmy Smith Jr: No! what we need to do is put our songs on JLB. Man shut the fuck up. All of us never do shit about nuttin' and we're still broke as fuck and living at home with our moms.

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Janeane: Do you know what everyone is saying about you? They're saying you froze up!

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Jimmy Smith Jr: [to his ex-girlfriend] Fuck you, Janeane, go home!

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Alex: You are really good out there.
B. Rabbit: Where? In line at the lunch truck?

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B. Rabbit: At least I got a fuckin' job.

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Future: I had a lotta names, baby - The most jealous names. I used to be called Maximum, Brimstone, Godfather D - None of 'em worked, you-know-what-Ima-sayin'? 'Til one day someone said I was the future of hip-hop in Detroit. And that was it.

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Stephanie: I gave 'im that nickname. When he was little he had these buck teeth and big ears and he was so cute, wike a wittle rabbit.

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Alex: So, I hear you're a real dope rapper.
Jimmy Smith Jr: Who told you I was a "dope rapper?"

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Jimmy Smith Jr: Hey don't be talkin' about my mom or my fuckin' car. I hear everything.
Sol: So he a ninja now?

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B. Rabbit: This man ain't no mother-fuckin' MC / I know everything he's got to say against me / I am white, I am a fucking bum / I do live in a trailer with my mom / My boy future is an Uncle Tom / I do got a dumb friend named Cheddar Bob / Who shoots himself in the leg with his own gun / I did get jumped by all six of you chumps / And Wink did fuck my girl / I'm still standing here screaming "Fuck the Free World."

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B. Rabbit: In fact dog, here's a pencil, go home, write some shit, make it suspenseful; and don't come back 'til somethin' dope hits you. Fuck it, you can take the mic home wit you.

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B. Rabbit: My motto: fuck Lotto, I'll get the seven digits from your mother for a dollar tomorrow.

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Stephanie: Greg and I are having sex problems.
B. Rabbit: Please, you're not gonna talk to me about that.
Stephanie: Greg won't go down on me.
B. Rabbit: Fuck, mom.

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Stephanie: What are you doing with your life, THAT'S SO GREAT?

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Alex: [to Jimmy] So how come they call you rabbit?
Future: Cause he's fast and likes to fuck a lot.

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B. Rabbit: Jimmy, they're calling your name.

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Jimmy Smith Jr: Fuck a beat, I'll go A Capella. Fuck a Papa Doc, fuck a clock, fuck a trailer, fuck everybody. Fuck y'all if you doubt me. I'm a piece of fuckin' white trash, I say it proudly. And fuck this battle, I don't want to win, I'm outtie. Here, tell these people something they don't know about me.

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Alex: Why did you take off?
B. Rabbit: I don't live here.
Alex: So? Why did you take off?

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B. Rabbit: That 'Leave it to Beaver' line almost killed me.

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[Freestyling]
B. Rabbit: This guy don't wanna win no battle he's shook 'cause ain't no such thing as HALFWAY CROOKS.

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B. Rabbit: Ward, I think you were a little hard on the beaver. So was Eddie Haskell, Wally, and Mrs. Cleaver.

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Jimmy Smith Jr: Yo man, lets get the fuck outta here, I need some privacy man.
Cheddar Bob: Can I come?

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Manny: [after Jimmy and Janeane's fight] What was all that about, Smith?
Jimmy Smith Jr: It wasn't my fault, I... It won't happen again.
Manny: Good. Don't be bringing that shit up here. Now get back to work.

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Jimmy Smith Jr: [rapping] This guy raps like his parents jerked him. He sounds like Eric Sermon, the generic version.

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Jimmy Smith Jr: If something needs to happen with this shit, it needs to happen now.

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Alex: Are you asking me out on a date?
B. Rabbit: Yes, I am. I'd like to take you somewhere sometime.
Alex: Take me somewhere now.

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Janeane: You know everyone's saying you're a loser.

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Jimmy Smith Jr: This guy keeps screamin'! He's paranoid. Quick! Someone get his ass another steroid!
[imitating Lotto]
Jimmy Smith Jr: BLAH-BA-DE-BLOOM-BLAH-BLOOM-BLAH-BA-DE-BLOOM-BLAH! I ain't hear a word you said; HIP-A-DE-HOOPLAAAH!

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B. Rabbit: I'm gonna turn around with a great smile, and walk my white ass back across 8 Mile

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