“I just wanted to do something that had some meaning that I can look back and be proud of, that my family can look back and be proud of.”

The best advice I have been given is to live in the moment, as cliché as that sounds. It’s crazy.

I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs – that’s what I am.

I feel I can really relate to a lot of young people.

I got a dream that’s worth more than my reality.

Man the life of a workaholic.You either on ya work or just workin on it.

You live and you learn, man. I’ve learned you can’t wait on anybody. You have to raise your awareness yourself.

I get sick all the time because I get no rest and sleep, but it’s definitely worth it.

There are so many people with great work ethics that I’ve been around. I try and take the best qualities from the people I admire and apply it to my own self.

Acting is a grind, just like music is a grind. Sometimes it takes longer than what you can give.

I hate all the old pictures of me before 2010 – and they are always the first ones to come up. That’s why I don’t Google myself, man.

Seafood is one of my biggest pet peeves.

I never look at it like I’m wasting money when I’m buying gold.

I ended up getting a lion chain. I had to make my own mascot – I want to start my own dynasty eventually.

Everything I wanted to do was big. I feel like my music is big, the mark I’ma leave in this world is big, so I feel like that’s the perfect name.

I don’t call my people fans, I call them believers, because they go above and beyond.

High ends, high spending. We just trying to end life on a high note.

We belong to a tradition where we treat the entire universe as our family. For me, globalisation is the manifestation of nationalisation. There is no contradiction between the two.

I hold one thing dearer than all else: my commitment to my son.

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.

Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.

An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.

Fans aren’t just fans… they’re part of my family.

If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent temper my father and older brother had. Both died of injuries from street fights in Baltimore, fights begun by flare-ups of their tempers.

Secularism is not only in our constitution but also in our veins. We worship Mother Nature too. We believe that the world is our family.