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

I’m not in it for fame. I’ve been famous in the streets already.

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.

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.

I make money because I have to pay for everything apart from my school fees. My mother even makes me pay my own telephone bill.

I think I’ve been around for a while. But I still have to pay my dues.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

People’s opinions will never pay your bills.

I have a passion for music; I love music. But I also have a passion for money and paying my bills.

Your opinion about yourself influences your ability to pay your bills.

I’m as poor as a church mouse, that’s just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese.