Just be confident. I think confidence is the most attractive part of a person.
Be prepared to do whatever you have to do. If you get put in a situation where your back is up against the wall let your gun go off.
I don’t think it makes me a role model. I think it makes me inspiring. Cause I’m from the bottom I think they look at me and go ‘well, if he made it, I can make it’
A thug is what I want and a thug is what I need. And my friends don’t understand, and I think it’s jealousy.
Everyone else is just mad cause i came from the bottom with out them.
A man becomes as attractive as an attractive woman when he becomes successful and is publicly noted. Power’s an aphrodisiac.
He who fears fate lives like a coward.
Sleep is for those who are broke.
A recession is predominantly for the middle class. Where I come from, the majority of people have always lived in a recession.
Being broke is against my religion.
I was surrounded by too many people who felt that they had a strong sense of entitlement. That I owed them something.
You either pray or worry. Don’t do both.
When my son came into my life, my priorities changed, because I wanted to have the relationship with him, that I didn’t have with my father.
Money definitely changes your lifestyle. But the things you go through makes who you are. Your experiences, they travel with you.
I done been to the pearly gates, they sent me back said the good die young I ain’t eligible for that.
Love your enemies and? hate your friends, your enemies remain the same your friends always change.
I think it’s easier for the general public to embrace me in a negative way. You have people who already have a perception of me that says I’m a bad person.
I have received 16 Grammy nominations and I have no trophies, because I chose to write the harsh realities. I stayed true to myself and I’ve taken a little beating behind it.
The competitive nature of hip-hop culture has always had battling involved with it. So you battle with the other artist but not necessarily in business and everywhere else.
If you consider yourself a part of the culture, then finances can’t allow you to be bigger than the actual art form.