Mase

“I like to be around people that's not afraid to be different.”

“Harlem World' is all about me doing my thing.”

“I'm not trying to live anybody else's life.”

“I'm not really into all this trying to be No. 1, trying to be King of New York. I'm not with that, I'm just trying to do the best I can and know at the end of the day I gave it my best.”

“Puff always does great collaborations, it's just you need that flair to make it work.”

“With me, I always try to give my all to my hood, put my hood on my skin, man. I love it.”

“You can't do gospel and rap. Either you're of the gospel music, or you're a rapper. You can't put the two together. You can, but is it right? It's questionable.”

“I don't want to be a rap star. I want you to see me and just say, 'That's Mase,' not 'That's Puff Daddy and Mase,' you know.”

“I don't pursue women - they pursue me.”

“I just want everybody to have fun. When I came into rap, that was my whole inspiration. That's what rap used to be about.”

“I could only do music if I could do it the way I could do it. That's what be making me stop, I don't wanna do music in the box.”

“I would say 'Harlem World' is a cult and at the end we're gonna have everybody believin'.”

“I like J. Cole when he's not taking shots at me.”

“You make money at anything you're good at. If you're a good doctor, you make money.”

“Mase was never a filthy artist.”

“There are a lot of styles out there and, basically, people make a choice.”

“I know God touched my heart to lead the youth back to Him. A lot of people can do it, but He chose me to do it.”

“All great artists have some spiritual backing.”

“That's the one thing you never judge, another man's spiritual walk. I wish more people knew that, because when you begin to talk about a person spiritually, you invite all types of bad things to happen to you. That's the worst thing you could do, because when you do that you're actually saying that you don't respect anything that's of substance.”

“Somebody sold millions of record before. I want to do something that hasn't been done.”