“To me, respect comes first.”

I will never say something I don’t agree with or believe in, even if the reward is massive!

You’re not going to scare me into being somebody I don’t want to be.

I built a company at the same time I built a career.

Study your Queen so you can give her what she wants without asking.

No one in life can enjoy peace until they know the meaning of it.

On a mission, your worst enemy is idle time.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

My music is influenced by L.A. culture.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

If you don’t know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it’s kind of hard to put things together.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

Luck is just bein’ prepared at all times, so when the door opens you’re ready.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

A speaker of truth has no friends.

We’re not the cause, we’re the effect.

Not one person can make or break what I’m doing, except me or God.

Like the lotus flower that is born out of mud, we must honor the darkest parts of ourselves and the most painful of our life’s experiences, because they are what allow us to birth our most beautiful self.

Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.

The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

My mom was a teacher – I have the greatest respect for the profession – we need great teachers – not poor or mediocre ones.

Close your eyes and visualize the person you really want to be, who fits your own concepts of self-respect. If you can see the person clearly in the mirror of you mind, you surely will become that person.

There are four pillars to a happy marriage: respect one another as individuals; (give) soft answers; (practice)financial honesty; (conduct) family prayer.

Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others.

The relationship with a producer and an artist is really special. It’s got to be love and respect, amazing mutual respect for each other, because that’s what makes a good record.