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“I'll never give up my style.”
“The reception on 'P2' has been crazy. Every show on the tour has been sold-out. I didn't think people were gonna catch on to it that quick because I started the tour the same day it came out.”
“I've been able to provide for my family, move out of Harlem and travel the world.”
“I just value my family's opinion as far as my music goes because that's the ones that really know you.”
“If you're a fan of anything I do, I'm always telling a story. I'm into that - I like it when you don't know if it was true or not.”
“You can't turn fame off regardless if you're a platinum-selling artist or you're in jail every week. If you're famous, you're famous. You're in the headlines either way you go.”
“I got it tatted on me, 'born broke, die rich.'”
“I never thought I'd be sitting across the table with the owner of Hennessy.”
“Islam really brought a discipline to my life that I didn't really have before. My old mindset was if they ain't helping me, I ain't helping them, but you can't live life that way.”
“I always tell people, I never get writer's block because it's coming straight from my brain, like, real-life experiences. I'm like the news. I'm just reporting it for myself.”
“I think R. Kelly is twisted, sick-minded, nasty, perverted - he different. I don't know anybody like R. Kelly.”
“I want to be one of the greats. I feel like the money and all that is going to come, but I want to be a name that, like, when you say Nas or Jay Z, that's forever.”
“Everybody knows I smoke, drink, and be up in the club, but I don't want that to be my entire thing. I want them to see me get up and go to the gym after a night of clubbing.”
“I write all my own music, everything.”
“I'm never gonna sell my soul or violate myself for no amount of dollars or fame.”
“Nobody uses skits at all anymore, so it seems like I use a lot. That's how I grew up on tapes. Biggie tapes, Biggie albums would have skits. The Lox would have skits. Mase would have skits. All the dudes I grew up on in Nineties rap would have skits on their projects, just to make you feel like you were right there with them.”
“No matter how dope you are, if you ain't really built, if you ain't put that groundwork in, you gonna flop. Nobody gonna fill those arenas.”
“When I go back to my hood, Queens, Brooklyn, or here in L.A., the people that's not famous, that's what inspires me.”
“I want to put out music that everyday people can relate to.”
“I want a son.”