“There’s no difference in dealing with the music business with the majors than any other competition. The music business is way more cutthroat than any other business.”

My kids get everything they want and are raised well.

The best revenge in the world is success.

No person ever gave me nothing but God.

No matter what it is, I think people want the answer they want, they don’t want the truth.

I only know what I heard and what I read. I had no involvement.

I don’t care about how many times somebody recognizes my face.

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

Basically, people are never happy enough because they want more money.

As far as anybody in the rap game ever tryin to assassinate my character, thats impossible. You talkin about a man who has always walked the walk and talked the talk.

I ain’t never preyed on the weak. I ain’t never gone and picked on a guy that I knew I could beat up, even as a kid. People wanna make me seem like I’m [that] type of guy.

If you grow up in the suburbs, you hear of people dying of old age, car wrecks, cancer. In the city, it’s always people dying of violence or stray bullets.

If you wanna cross somebody, then do that. Don’t act like it wasn’t you.

I think the biggest misconception about me probably is … I don’t prey on the weak. I ain’t a bully, but I ain’t no saint, either.

I am in the penitentiary. The only thing that I do is my time.

The music business would be much better, for the youth and the kids, if they start hiring employees that understand the kids.

I’m gonna make sure everybody get their justice. This the year for business, this the year for my book, this the year for the movie and this the year for getting even. I’m on my way.

Business can change you, and chew you up, and spit you out, and be rid of you, and on to the next thing. That’s why it’s so important to know who you are and stand up for something.

I don’t even listen to the records after they come out. It’s outlawed in my house. My wife and my kids can’t play any of my music around me. Once it comes out, for me, it’s just business. Numbers.

I ain’t no gangster. I’m a grown man trying to run a business.

This is a very fickle business. It’s really about how much you value the other things in your life. I still value too many other things more than I do fame.

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world

No, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it’s total crap to pretend it’s not.

I hate the business part of music. Music is just like the streets. There’s loyal and disloyal people, people saying one thing and then don’t do it.