“I try to sprinkle a little gems and jewels in the music that people could use in their own life.”

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.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can’t take steps toward whatever your goal is.

Hope opportunity don’t knock when opportunists in your group.

Success to me is just being able to do what you love to do and support yourself all through.

We are all making a crown for Jesus out of these daily lives of ours, either a crown of golden, divine love, studded with gems of sacrifice and adoration, or a thorny crown, filled with the cruel briars of unbelief, or selfishness, and sin.

People say to me, why did you do those films, and I say, for money. It wasn’t for diamond rings or kidney shaped swimming pools in Beverly Hills, it was in order to improve the lot of everyone around me.

Is a diamond less valuable because it is covered with mud? God sees the changeless beauty of our souls. He knows we are not our mistakes.

God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He’s working on you, too.

Pressure makes diamonds.

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

Each pendant has a special meaning so I try not to leave the house without them.

I’m into crystals and good energy and harnessing more. It’s just like prayer. It helps you be grateful, think about good things, and keep that positive energy around you.