“The money turned me into a monster.”

I don’t want to just be fully rapping my whole life.

I work hard. I focus on myself and putting food on my dinner table before anything else. I don’t worry about other artists. Worrying about the next person in a negative way is the wrong way to be.

When you do 10 interviews in one day, and 10 different sources want to talk to you, that means you’re doing good. I think about that every day.

I don’t know what type of music my son will want. By the time he starts listening to music, really, at like 15, 16, I’ll probably have 10 albums out by that time.

Work harder than anybody you’ve ever seen. That’s what I believe.

Management plays a role just keeping everything in place for you and making sure everything’s going right.

Just build your brand from day one, man. Your brand is your name, basically. A lot of people don’t know that they need to build their brand, your brand is what keeps you moving.

If you don’t have your friends and your family, what do you really have? You can have all the money in the world, but with no friends and no family, it’s no good.

I’ve been betrayed a lot of times in life. I think everybody’s been.

I’m not gone remix a record I don’t got no love for.

I don’t think I would change really anything about rap. Rap don’t have no limits to it, and I like it like that.

I always wanted to be one of the hottest rappers.

One night I prayed to God, I asked could he please remove my enemies from my life, and before you knew it I started losing friends.

I don’t think about returning to the streets, ’cause I don’t have any plans to return to the streets. I’m at another level in my life. Returning to the street – I still be in my streets when I get time to, when it’s necessary.

I leave my circle tight and keep my family close.

Big dreams turn into big things.

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Your body doesn’t need to change – the way you think about it does.

Change the narrative. It will change your mindset.  

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

Nothing changes, unless we change.

There’s no reason to wait. Change starts when you want your dreams to happen.

A committed person can change the world and that person can be you. 

It’s the person you never saw coming that will change your life.