“Everyday, all day I have to be productive. And when I ain’t productive, I get concerned.”

I feel like I’m married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it’s serious.

I just think a hustler’s ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I’ll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my heroes were hustlers. Now I’m their hero.

Music is all about leadership and there ain’t really a lot of leaders.

With rap, it’s a funny thing. You can say things, and people can take ’em the way they wanna take ’em.

Anybody that’s got a problem with me is probably envious or wants to be me, and that’s how I’ve always looked at it.

It wasn’t necessary to speak on the recession, you know what I mean, but I just though it made a lot of sense. I was like, “okay, cool,” I’m going to go with this approach for the name of the album [ The Recession].

Every time I’m out and somebody tells me they love what I do, that’s what I do it for. That’s like my vice. That’s like my high. When people understand that this is who I really am, and to be appreciated for your craft .

I’ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.

I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.

Anybody that I ever dealt with knows that I’m a very focused individual, and when it comes to my work and what I do, you might have to play the back burner to that.

You seen my shows; I bring the ‘hood out.

A lot of things come with fame, whether it’s losing friends or losing family.

My fans are my family, because they understand me and I understand them.

Think you figured it out, but you don’t have a clue. Think you on top of the world, but the world on top of you.

People who work every day are kind of scared of things they don’t understand.

You’ve got to be happy with yourself. You can’t sell yourself if you’re out here and you ain’t good. Because you’re giving people messages, and if your message is wrong, then it’s like the blind leading the blind.

I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.

The same yesterday, today, and forever.

At the end of the day, you can have something in your head, something in your hand, or something in your heart. What are you choosing?

I wanted people to feel me as a person. I do this music for the people, man, so at the end of the day I feel like, [given] our state of mind and the state our economy is in

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

At the day of Doom men shall be judged according to their fruits. It will not be said then, did you believe? But, were you doers or talkers only?

He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.

I went to my friend’s house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp