Pimp C

“At an early age I was listening to BB King, what have you. Ray Charles, Jimmy Smith, Jimmy Mcgriff, you dig? With the obvious Marvin Gayes and the Motown records.”

“I'll ride for Atlanta in a war before anybody else gon' have a chance to do it.”

“Wasn't nobody wearing diamond necklaces until Jay-Z jumped out there with them.”

“If you've gotta tell on your own people to get yourself out of trouble, you're a snitch.”

“Early on I did all the production for UGK, like on 'Southern Way.' Yeah, 90 percent of the production and not for any other reason then I couldn't find anybody that would give me what I needed, so I had to make it myself.”

“I couldn't get on a 'Source' cover 'til I went to prison.”

“I'm from the old school, so I was wearing button-up polo shirts way back, with the sweater to match.”

“I remember going to L.A. and doing shows, and people would just stand there with their arms folded.”

“What's wrong with the 'Laffy Taffys' and the Soulja Boys? We need fun records. We gotta have dance music. We gotta have club music. We gotta have kids' music.”

“I don't consider myself to be bigger than nobody else in this game, so I'm not here to tell people what to rap about.”

“If you ask me my opinion, if you're a rapper in this game, you oughta have a license to be able to carry a weapon.”

“I gotta answer the hard questions in a hard-type manner. Anything else would be uncivilized.”

“I'm down with Jim Jones.”

“Atlanta is not the South.”

“When we're rapping on these records, we're either rapping about our past lives or things our people are going through right now in the struggle. It's not necessarily what we're going through ourselves.”

“I used to spend summers with my Granma in Louisiana; Crowley, LA.”

“We took an oath back when we were teenagers that this is UGK for life. We've actually got tattoos on our arms in the same place that says 'UGK for life.'”

“I'm trying to resurrect old school rappers from N.Y.”

“I was a fan of DMC but I was captivated by Run's style, I wanted to be the man. As a kid, when somebody got that kinda influence over a child... you know how strong that can be.”

“I'm doing pretty good on my own, when I can control my tongue.”