“The record business. It’s exactly what it is-Record-Busin ess. You have to take care of both, or they won’t take care of you.”

I’ve gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it’s almost like a high. You don’t want it to stop. You don’t want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.

I don’t have room in my life for folks that large and demanding.

I am never going to give music up.

I realized at a young age that sequence in an album is almost as important as the songs that are on the album.

People are always coming up to me, thinking I’ve got some magic wand that can make them a star and I want to tell them that no one can do that. Making hit records is not that easy. But it took me time to realize that myself.

I been in the game for 10 years making rap tunes… Ever since honeys was wearing Sassoons.

You’re a victim from my drive-by of thoughts.

Everything that I do is for sound goals. It comes from my gut. When I’m sitting in the studio, a mix isn’t done till I feel it in my gut.

When the ideas are coming, I don’t stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn’t come along all the time.

I’m bad for your health, like puttin’ a pistol up to your face and blastin’ yourself.

I’m gonna try and change the course of hip hop again.

They wanna hang us, see us dead, or enslave us, keep us trapped in the same place we raised in. Then they wonder why we act so outrageous, run around stressed out and pull out gauges.

I’ve looked at pictures that my mom has of me, from when I was four years old at the turntable. I’m there, reaching up to play the records. I feel like I was bred to do what I do. I’ve been into music, and listening to music and critiquing it, my whole life.

If you work at rap and look at it as an art, the money will come. But if you try to get the money, it’ll just always be shallow.

I don’t even listen to the records after they come out. It’s outlawed in my house. My wife and my kids can’t play any of my music around me. Once it comes out, for me, it’s just business. Numbers.

I’m expressin’ with my full capabilities, And now I’m livin in correctional facilities. Cause some don’t agree with how I do this, I get straight and meditate like a Buddhist.

Be always the work in progress. The day you finish learning is the day you are finished.

Without a game plan and without a strong sense of faith in what you’re doing, it’s gonna be really hard to accomplish anything.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

Most important thing is to get rid of doubt. If you got doubt in what you’re doing it’s not gonna work.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

Healthy mindset is a key to wealthy life.

Your competitor is not other people. Your competitor is your ego.

It breaks my heart that some people are only kind when there is something in it for them. Everything is a business now, including human decency.