Yo Gotti

“I never tell my artists how to rap or how to approach a song. I let them do the song.”

“I just always knew that I was going to get some money, that I was going to be successful.”

“I think you could get a good accountant, but I think I am the best accountant for me. Can't nobody count my money like I can count it.”

“Boxing is a full-body workout, and while you're in it and learning the procedures and steps, you're working out at the same time. Sometimes it don't feel like you're actually working out, which I like.”

“Back when I was growing up, I always had one foot in the street and one foot in music.”

“When I was young I was getting more money than the old heads. I was smarter and tighter, so whoever's team I was on was at an advantage.”

“I would watch all of the videos that came on on BET and MTV. I was infatuated with the hip-hop culture.”

“When I grew up, my auntie was in prison.”

“I got a lot of respect for Drake, most definitely; he's killin' it.”

“I'm a songwriter, actually. And when I say I'm a songwriter, I'm saying I can write songs for more than just myself.”

“The fact is, I'm the biggest rapper from Memphis, I help a lot of rappers from Memphis.”

“It was once upon a time where me, myself as a kid - and I know plenty of people who grew up the same way - couldn't even afford a pair of shoes.”

“It's a difference between a good rapper and 'king of the city,' they're two different things. You can be a better rapper than me, that don't mean you're king of the city.”

“'Back 2 Da Basics' was my way of saying I'm done and out of the streets and I'm going to get a record deal and be a rapper for real.”

“The conditions in the prisons operated by the Mississippi Department of Corrections are absolutely inhumane and unconstitutional.”

“You know, things that's important to you, things you passionate about, you should fight for it.”

“Trap music to me isn't just a sound. If we're talking about what I think trap music is, I couldn't say that I created it or no one created it, because if you were living the same life that I was living and you're speaking about it, we just speaking about our endeavors in that world.”

“Me as a person, man, I'm just rapping reality. Every time I get in front of the microphone I'm just speaking about real life and what's happening.”

“I think hip-hop always shifts culture.”

“The right watch is like real estate.”