You gotta understand: I'm a man with needs that needs fulfilling. And if you ain't with it, somebody else is willing.

Welcome to Atlanta Jack and hammers and vogues Back to the mackin' and jackin' the clothes Adolescents packin the fo'

You ain't got to change the whole world. You just alter it a little bit and you redefine it into something beautiful.

'Cruise Control' was the first track me and Wiz Khalifa ever did. I made the beat on that, and I played guitar on it.

Every night, we put on shows that are deteriorating our bodies' life span... we don't do it for it all to be in vain.

Now my fans are older and they understand how to appreciate me the same way I appreciate them for being there for me.

If you're crying under fire, then you wasn't built for war. If a pimp took your girl, then your girl was never yours.

I pledge allegiance to the fair and balanced truth. Not the biased truth, Not the liest truth, But the highest truth.

Аll I need is one life, one try, one breath, I'm one man. What I stand for speaks for itself...they don't understand.

You can't please everybody. You'd be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.

I probably only cried five or six times in my life and I think four of those times was from my daddy kicking my butt.

I love my hair. But I don't even remember my original color because I started bleaching it so young. I was, like, 11.

Radio makes it appear like you can get some sounds in a laptop and be the next dude. Those careers don't really last.

Niggas frown when you up and smile when you down. And when you change for the better, shife fools stop comin' around.

Take the craziest dream you ever had and go after it. Make it a reality. I don't want you to dream, I want you to do.

I was heavily influenced by Melle Mel, Kool Moe Dee, Grandmaster Caz, but I kind of wanted to take it somewhere else.

Most often the earlier a cult member is approached through an intervention the more likely they are to be responsive.

What's the basis when rappers don't know the basics? Still not takin' advice from those I wouldn't trade places with.

There is not enough high intellect to be catered to and when most people think of Hiphop they think of low intellect.

Doesn't the world inside a black and white photograph seem more real? It's because the real world is losing its color

All the promises we made in the beginning, did we forget because we were busy? Or are we already too busy forgetting?

A lot of young kids like myself use Instagram because it has swag - it's more personal, and your friends generate it.

To become a master at any skill, it takes the total effort of your: heart, mind, and soul working together in tandem.

There is no halfway or lackadaisical way to fight lust. If you're not fighting your sin, you're befriending your sin.

Sometimes, my weakness is where the strength really is, and it leads me to depend in the areas where I really should.

Gotta start teaching the children that they can be just what they want to be, there's much more to life than poverty.

The reason why I could get into acting was because it takes nothing to get out of who I am and go into somebody else.

We never really learn from the first mistake or the second or third. It only hit us when we're given the last chance.

You took the Alkaholik challenge, and lost your balance You underground, we under water drinkin liquid by the gallons

There are many tremendous artists that never make it. Talent is not enough if no one sees, hears and tastes your work.

It is important for me to help others because I was also helped by others before I became part of the Black Eyed Peas.

I don't remember saying nothing about me crossing over. I did R&B collaborations but I never tried to do no pop stuff.

We all share the planet, the rainbows share the sky, why can't we all share the same dream? And rap about what we see?

I've never really dissed Ma$e - I just tell you the truth, and if you think he's a sucker for that, it ain't my fault.

I try not to be preachy, I just try to deal with people on their own level, not to try to talk down or up to a person.

I encourage more blacks and people of color to get a passport. That's one way to help put people on an equal platform.

Niggas on the internet know everything. You could make a freestyle tape in the fourth grade and they'll know about it.

Me rapping over other people's beats doesn't mean as much as when Lil Wayne does it - no matter how hard I'm going in.

I never cheated, for the record, back when I was with you. But you believed in everything but me girl, I don't get you

The game ain't always fair and that's the thing though. You can play your heart out, everyone don't get a ring though.

You get committed with what you put in songs. It made me wary of who and what I include, because that's there forever.

I just feel I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's real when it comes to AIDS.

My songs are my hookers. I can't worry about how they are going to be treated; they just need to bring home the bacon.

All gigs are good gigs. There's never a bad one. Everything have a reason behind it; you just got to find that reason.

When I was young and didn't know any English, I was drawn by the energy and power of foreign songs and their melodies.

You got a lot of girls out there that can rhyme and are underground, but it's sex appeal that makes people really big.

The Scarecrow needed a brain, the Tin Man needed a heart, and the other dude needed courage. I need love. You feel me?

'The Wizard of Poetry' - I had that title since I did 'The Pretty Toney' album. That's when the name first came to me.

Most of my subject matter was all kind of, like, party stuff, jewelry and cars. It was really just, you know, shallow.

I would love to do something like 'Beverly Hills Cop'. I'd get to be funny and cool and heroic all in the same breath.

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