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Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it's happening.
Partnering with Atlantic Records creates the opportunity to take what we're doing to the next level, without compromising.
We are not apart from nature, we are a part of nature. And to betray nature is to betray us. To save nature is to save us.
You ain't gonna know about me by talking about the past. Haters care about that. My fans, they care about where I'm going.
I just know what an icon does, and that's whatever you want to do and it's trendsetting. You know? It's real cutting-edge.
Heltah Skeltah-meets-Portishead would be like the Brand New Heavies Hip Hop album, something like that. That's dope, word.
Music is my girlfriend, pretty much. It's makes it a little difficult, but I'm always looking, looking for the right girl.
If u hot and make hot ish, Imma make sure and get down with ya! Break bread or fake dead - everyone else move out tha way!
I love making music and I'm falling in love with making records, so it's like having two girlfriends. But I can handle it.
Being vulnerable, in my opinion, is not a weakness. It's being human. It is allowing yourself to not have all the answers.
I look at the deejay thing as a tier thing. If I'm not going to compete on that level, I'm just going to do it as a hobby.
I hate writing texts to girlfriends because you can't really see emotions in texts. You can get confused on what she says.
One of the things that I just kind of became very enthusiastic about, and wanted to learn more about it, is how God saves.
I love being an example, that, hey, I'm young, I'm a rapper, and the gospel is the power of God for salvation even for me.
strength is overcome by weakness/Joy is overcome by Pain/The night is overcome by Brightness/and Love-it remains the same.
Can't close my eyes cause all I see is terror I hate the man in the mirror Cause his reflection makes the pain turn realer
I only like people to know what I want them to know. People didn't know what Tupac was doing. That's why he was so iconic.
You wear fur, it's like you trying to be something you not. You get fur, you can spend the same money on like, 30 jackets.
I don't want to be one of those guys that you see who made $4 million, invested $3.5 million, and now you work at Wendy's.
A lot of people in my family have high blood pressure. Dre told me I better start hitting the gym... so I took his advice.
You could use artificial intelligence to build a system around postcodes and income, which could lead to racial profiling.
Some people make your life better by walking into it while other people make your life better by simply walking out of it.
Some of us do so much to make others happy. Sad thing is, some of us dont even know someone that would do the same for us.
After being in the game so long, making so much money and achieving different things, now I think a lot more about impact.
My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me, 'No, it's like this.'
The teachings of Tibetan Buddhism have been passed down for a long time now. They have that system pretty well figured out.
With clothes, I like mixing what different designers do until it becomes a personal expression of how I'm feeling that day.
Look, I got 11,052 songs on my iPod. Cyndi Lauper, Guns N' Roses, Geto Boys, N.W.A. push shuffle and anything will come on.
A wise man sees failure as progress. A fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic, And loses his soul in the process.
Don't listen to much country music, you know, but I know a little bit though. My sister listens to a little bit of country.
My ultimate goal is to really be a huge music artist to the point where one day people forget that I was on a reality show.
Music is what I do pretty much all the time. I'm always in the studio. I'm always rehearsing for shows. Always doing shows.
I know I am judged unfairly by my physical characteristics and ostracized because of that so I say, "Yes, I'm a black man."
My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.
There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.
I just bought a Lambourghini, I'm not even into racing with a windshield full of tickets cause I live right by the station.
I wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It's not heavy. I don't have skeletons in the closet on their way out.
It's like hip hop all over again, back in the '70s back in the Bronx, when it was just bubbling. But it's going to be huge.
As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.
I come from nothing, and growing up, I really didn't have many people to inspire me, at least no good people to inspire me.
I just consider myself an artist. I dont really rap. I dont really sing. I just do what I feel is good, and people like it.
I don't take anything for granted. I know there are a million and one dudes who are rapping, wishing they were in my shoes.
What we should really fear is not failure but the heart that is no longer brave enough to take risks and embrace challenges
Money isnt what drives me, getting fans who truly understand what I'm about and want to see me live is where my head is at.
I've got life, I've got love, I've got faith & that's enough. We feel sorrow we feel pain, but there's sunshine after rain.
I've been hearing what a lot of people been doing and what a lot of people been putting out musically, I've been listening.
If you look back, you get stuck in a year. I've seen rappers and singers get stuck in 2002 or 2005, and they can't get out.
When I was about 15 years old, I began to embark on an MC career but also to study philosophy with an emphasis on theology.
The Temple of HipHop has declared HipHop its own religion. We believe HipHop is divine. HipHop proves the existence of God.
We find worth in jobs, money, & performance so we can hide how worthless we feel inside. Acknowledge the pain to be healed.