“Doing music to pay bills is an uncomfortable situation. I never wanted to be in that situation.”

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.

The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.

Thought is powerful in all phases. Even in my career, even in my life, things end up exactly how I visualized them.

Every artist wants something different out the game.

I’m focusing on the music, but I still got a cold library of books that I’ve either read or I plan on getting to.

I always wanted to operate at the highest altitude, just in terms of hip-hop and the music.

We don’t want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

All the smart money got they bets on me and all the real niggas wish the best for me.

Originally marriage meant the sale of a woman by one man to another; now most women sell themselves though they have no intention of delivering the goods listed in the bill of sale.

Originally marriage meant the sale of a woman by one man to another; now most women sell themselves though they have no intention of delivering the goods listed in the bill of sale.

I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.

Why, in a country of free speech, are there phone bills?

I still live as normal a life as anybody else. I have two homes to run. I have my staff to take care of. I work, pay bills and attend society meetings like everybody else.

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.