Young Jeezy

“When money was plentiful, I was the first one who told you to stack it. Live your life with it. Now that money slowed up, I'ma be the one telling you to save it like they ain't gon' make it no more.”

“When you a ghetto star, when you a hood star, you gonna take care of your grandmother, your mother. When you on that next level, you gotta take care of the city, the streets.”

“Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.”

“Honestly, I'm on the road so much that I never really get a chance to go to baseball games.”

“Sam Jackson is like the Jeezy of Hollywood: He's for his people.”

“I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.”

“I don't think nobody should compare me to anyone, 'cause, at the end of the day, you've got a 'Pac, you've got Snoop, you got Tip, you got Wayne - there's only one Jeezy, man. Ain't nobody walked in these shoes but me.”

“I, and others like me - trap stars - we always considered ourselves Robin Hoods: we go out and get the money. Just think, if you was in the village and you a hunter, you take pride in going out to hunt the prey and bring it back for the village to eat. In our situation, we took pride in getting money so that the hood could eat.”

“My fans are my family, because they understand me and I understand them.”

“When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain't to be played with. You've got people that lost their lives and people that are doing real time. If we gon' make music, let's just make music.”

“I don't know how to be a rapper. I just know how to be me.”

“To be honest, I think about the clubs when I write. But I should probably start thinking about stadiums, because the songs sound even better there - and bigger.”

“My hustle is nonstop. I never stop hustling.”

“With rap, it's a funny thing. You can say things, and people can take 'em the way they wanna take 'em.”

“Music is how you feel.”

“In middle school, I had an '87 Regal. That was unheard of.”

“It's not the average people that come to my show.”

“John McCain... looks like a fraud to me.”

“I guess now music is so saturated and so microwaved. It's, like, 15 minutes in the microwave and boom, you've got something. Nobody's putting passion or any thought behind it anymore.”

“You seen my shows; I bring the 'hood out.”