Prodigy

“We used to cut out of school and go to Coney Island to record songs almost every day.”

“When we signed to G-Unit, 50 made us sign the paper that says, 'You can't talk about nothing about me.' He makes everybody sign that.”

“You can never go back to a time and try to recreate that sound, because that time is done.”

“Sickle cell was my life before hip-hop. I ain't really have no life - that was it.”

“I wanna like Obama, but he's all about the world government, world banking, war, and stuff like that. You know what I'm sayin'? He's a phony.”

“In the beginning, we might have been focused on totally just music and being famous, just wanting to have fame and make hot music, but as we got older, we had to understand that this is a business and that our moves need to be calculated.”

“My favorite Eminem song is probably 'Lose Yourself' because I can relate to it a lot. That's how I feel every time I write a rhyme.”

“The music is just real powerful when Mobb Deep and Nas work together.”

“I found that preparation is everything when you cook.”

“Our style of hip-hop, our style of beats, our style of rhymes - you gonna give us burn. We gonna get our burn that we deserve.”

“You have to find a sound that reflects what our souls feel like inside, how our bodies actually feel. That's why we made our own beats. We couldn't find a producer who could give us the feeling to match our lyrics.”

“When I first went in, I realized there's no green vegetables. They serve, like, spinach once every two weeks. The three meals they serve inmates every day is like slop.”

“Extreme pain to extreme pleasure has been the story of my entire life.”

“In the era we came up in, you had to have your own thing.”

“I love New York. It 'as made me who I am, know what I mean?”

“I couldn't afford to get sick in prison. My sickle cell is no joke, so I couldn't eat poorly or not exercise. And everything in jail is designed to do the exact opposite.”

“Once I started writing, I realized just how much I really enjoyed it. I was kinda good at it, so I kept at it.”

“Just having conversations with God, begging God to make the pain go away, and then the pain wouldn't go away. So I'm like 'Who the hell am I talking to? God is not responding.'”

“I can't front: I like Kanye.”

“Mobb Deep is a street-rap group. We from off the streets.”