Young Dolph

“Once you been listening to the same CD for, like, two weeks, three weeks, it get old to you. You need something new.”

“I told myself, if I sacrifice Young Dolph and never sign to a major label and I get Young Dolph hot? I'm going to earn and get all of these relationships and do a lot of networking. I'm gonna know the business, all the way, ins and outs.”

“Everybody you see around me, they're kings. Every last one of them. I ain't the only one that got paper.”

“Whatever it is we doing, we gonna do it to our very best.”

“This has always been my plan and my vision, to build a strong team and build artists like Glock. I always knew I could do it with artists, because I saw what I did for myself as an artist.”

“I'm not like most artists or most CEOs - I'm a CEO first, then an artist.”

“You learn how to take sacrifices, you learn to give things up to get into something you're trying to get into.”

“There are three rules for being in the Paper Route Illuminati. Rule number one: get the money first. Rule number two: don't forget to get the money. How do you make that money? You can't make money without making sacrifices.”

“That first tape I did dropped in 2009. It was just for fun, I'm like 'I'm just going to do something to have fun.' Everyone was just 'put out a tape. You're young. You've got money. It ain't gonna hurt you. Who's it gonna hurt?' So what I ended up doing was I put out the tape, pressed up 20,000 CDs, flooded the streets.”

“At the end of the day that's the only thing you can't pay for, the thing you can't get back. So you gotta learn to sacrifice that time to put something you trying to invest in.”

“I don't give a damn if it's a hustle that's already big or you go to work at Kroger every day, the grocery store. Or you work at Walmart. You work, so I respect you. You don't work, what can we do? We can't relate.”

“It's the reality of being Black in this country. You can have money, and you can be a benefactor and a leader in your community, but all people see is Black skin.”

“There were two hoods, Magnolia and Castalia; I went to Magnolia Elementary. Back then there was slick beefing - all the Castalia kids would go over to Magnolia.”

“We did so much music together, before he got locked up, it's just, Gucci, he don't hold on to music. He like, Man, let's put this out, let's put that out, let's put this out. That's what he do. He like to put out a lot of music.”

“At the end of the day, don't nobody go into business to lose money.”

“My mom and dad are from the streets. My mom's from Chicago. My dad's from Memphis. My dad got out of school and got with my mom. They were hustlers. They were from the streets. They were doing their thing. The streets ain't got no love for the streets. You can light up the streets, or be a victim of the streets.”

“If there's something negative about you, you've got to bring out the positive to the front.”

“There's a lot of people in this game that wait for Paper Route, Dolph or Glock to drop just to get that new lingo and style and see what type of creativity we on.”

“We just like having fun with everything we do.”

“I'm not trying to regret nothing in my career.”