A biography for Masehasn’t been written yet.
“Money is not of the devil. It depends on who's controlling it.”
“A lot of people have money, but they don't have peace with it. They can't sleep. They need bodyguards every day.”
“I used to be real cocky about what I do but then I realized it's not me, all of this is really God's gift and whenever He want to, He can take it away.”
“I think if you want to be groundbreaking, you have to do something that's never been done.”
“I was always a hard working basketball player.”
“I'm not just a rapper; I'm an intelligent young man. But being able to give my mother everything she's ever wanted, I could care less about being famous or the money; that's my dream. That's all that matters to me.”
“Rap has always been about using your talents for doing more.”
“I actually would say when it comes to something like a person's spiritual walk, it's not really about what I think.”
“I can only do music if I can do it the way I can do it.”
“It's time for us as Black people to realize that we can do more than one thing.”
“Once God puts something in your heart - you know, God talks to everyone different.”
“What I have is a personal relationship with God.”
“I think to put someone in a box is somewhat narrow-minded.”
“It takes a great person to walk away from money.”
“Once I get to a certain level, I don't want to rap all my life.”
“I don't want to do music in a box, like everybody say what I can't do, 'he can't say this.'”
“I wanted a fulfilling life, what every person wants. And then I just made a decision to leave music to venture out and go after what it is I always wanted, and that was total life prosperity.”
“I just didn't want a musical side of me being prosperous but I'm dying on the inside.”
“Before I got signed to Bad Boy, I grew up listening to Snoop and Tupac and my hood was all Tupac driven.”
“Let me tell you something: being broke ain't going to make nobody come to the Gospel.”