I am what I am; you can like it or love it. It feels good to blow fifty grand and think nothing of it.
Ambition is a tunnel that you run through that doesn’t end.
I’ve got to make it to heaven; for going through hell.
At that age, it’s one of the worse things in the world to wake up and not see your bike where you left it.
For me success was always going to be a Lamborghini. But now I’ve got it, it just sits on my drive.
I’ve been in situations like in Tokyo where people sang my song word for word and then when the music stopped, they couldn’t speak to me. I’ve seen the music break the language barrier.
When I fell in love with hip-hop, there was a terminology at the time called “battling.” All that was just battling with other artists, but after Tupac and those incidents when it spilled into the street and turned into a negative situation, battling turned into a beef. A whole new dynamic.
Just be confident. Confidence is the most attractive part of a person. Because if they’re not confident enough to show you who they are, you don’t even know who they are.
When I’m actually creating music, I try not to listen to the hip-hop records that are going on, because I think, subconsciously, we steal from each other. If you’re listening to a record and it’s really hot, then you’ll be looking for something that feels like that, or that has a version of it.
Stay to yourself, just listen. Do more listening than talking. The more you speak the higher the chances you sayin the wrong thing.
I never had working papers. I never had a job. I sold crack until I got in the music, so this is the best thing that happened to me and I do it excessively.
I feel like you can will yourself into a good space. Things that are meant to happen, will. If you believe in yourself enough, you can help yourself learn. You can inspire yourself in ways to discipline yourself to a point where you CAN become good enough.
The more my fans know about my past, the more they’ll be able to predict and understand some of the moves I make in the future.
When I nearly died it made me think – this can happen again any second. I better hurry and do what I want. I started to live like I never lived before. When the fear of death is gone, then nothing can bother you and nobody can stop you.
Without music I wouldn’t have the ability to be in business. The opportunity to be in business came with the finances from music and the notoriety that comes with being successful as an artist. So I see myself as an artist first, but I’m absolutely conscious of business.
Your opinion of yourself becomes your reality. If you have all these doubts, then no one will believe in you and everything will go wrong. If you think the opposite, the opposite will happen. It’s that simple.
If you’re familiar with my man Uncle Sam, you understand the only way you can actually feel better about what he’s gonna take, come the end of the year, is lifestyle. Only thing you can do is spend some of it.
I think either you’re creative or you’re not. In general, I don’t think you need to be in pain to actually be creative unless you’re writing love songs. Then you might need to have some ups and downs within your emotions to start to capture that.
I like generals. I like Napoleon. I like strategy. The majority of them are praised for mass destruction, but it’s exciting to see how it comes to the mind mentally.
It’s not funny when you actually get shot, but afterwards, yeah, it’s funny.