Fur pillows are actually hard to sleep on.
A lot of people are very sacred with their ideas, and there is something to protecting yourself in that way, but there’s also something to idea sharing, or being the person who makes the mistake in public so people can study that.
Having money isn’t everything, not having it is.
If you can focus the energy into something valuable, put that into work ethic...
When we die, the money we can’t keep, but we probably spend it all cause the pain ain’t cheap.
I’ve had meetings where a guy actually told me, “What we’re trying to figure out is how we can control you.” In the meeting, to me! Why do you want to control me?
I know you can’t control everything, and everything is in God’s hands ultimately, but I’m going to fight, go out and perform for everybody, I don’t care.
The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, ‘What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?’ And, ‘How does creativity apply across the board?’
It’s like this, by not giving my album a classic rating, you diminish your magazine’s credibility. And that’s real.
When you’re the absolute best, you get hated on the most.
If you have power, you have to empower.
I live and breathe every element in life.
Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It’s so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
Turn that 62 to 125, 125 to 250, 250 to half a million, ain’t nothing nobody can do with me.
Beauty has been stolen from the people and is being sold back to them as luxury.
Now that you’re gone, it hit us, super hard on Thanksgiving and Chrismas, this can’t be right, yo you heard the track I did called this can’t be life.
That’s very cool. Well, that’s great. If I were to cater to Kanye, he would know that I’m catering to him. The fact that I make what I make-he gets it. He gets the quality and he respects it. And I think that’s the key, why I work all the time is to do that. That’s the fun.
I wouldn’t even say that I’m a rapper. I’d say I’m more of a messenger.
When I was in fourth grade I was drawing Jordans when my mama couldn’t afford them.
We’ve been sold a concept of joy through advertising. It was somehow sold to us through a Gucci bag or something.