Cam'ron

“It takes more than a botched carjacking to keep me down.”

“When we did Diplomats music, it was all genuine, and I think that's why people love it so much, because they seen a group of kids from Harlem that had almost nothing come up to be platinum-selling artists, and people rode that wave with us.”

“No record company in the world would say, 'We're not promoting if you keep calling somebody a snitch.' They know what makes money. A record company would never be that stupid. Ever.”

“To be honest, sometimes I get in my shell, and I don't want to do stuff, and sometimes I'm real active.”

“Maybe I beef with people, but it was never random. Anybody you name, I could give you the reason why it happened or whatever led to the beef.”

“There's nothing really to talk about with the police. I mean, for what?”

“Everything is a catwalk for me. I walk to the store, and that's a catwalk.”

“I love having my son in my life. That's why it's more fathers in the hip-hop community, because they probably went through a fatherless childhood like I did.”

“I wanted to stand out and look different. It wasn't nothing that was done purposely, or I was going to be the guy who wears pink forever. It was something for me to stand out.”

“I work with any producer that brings me a hot beat, but you don't always know if it's a sample.”

“I didn't want to be a rapper full time. You know, Big L kinda - God bless the dead - influenced me to do that.”

“I listen to 'Purple Haze' a lot. If I'm in the gym, I listen to that album the whole way through sometimes.”

“Go to school and get your education and follow your dreams.”

“I'm from the building where the wave was invented. Downstairs, under me. Ask Bigavel. Y'all call him Bigavel, Max B. I know him as Charlie Rambo. I'm from the building where the wave was invented, and it was invented after I was born.”

“You like me, or you hate me. There's really no in between.”

“Where I come from, once word gets out that you've cooperated with the police, that only makes you a bigger target of criminal violence. That is a dark reality in so many neighborhoods like mine across America. I'm not saying its right, but it's reality.”

“It doesn't matter where I'm at - if I'm somewhere sitting still for more than an hour, rhymes start popping in my head... It's just kinda instilled in me.”

“They treat my stuff like wine. It just gets better with time.”

“Dipset is Dipset, but it's over.”

“I roll with the punches.”