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People who've only seen me perform might assume that I'm confident and that being ignored wouldn't bother me - but it does.
I want people to smile when they hear my name. I love everyone. I want to help make it a better time for the kids after me.
You have to wipe yourself down, to stay clean. If ya' girl clean, and ya' thoughts clean, wipe 'em down. Wipe 'em down man.
Challenge me, that'd be to my advantage I'm outstanding, like standing outside up in the twister, and walking out undamaged
We did want to stand for something, not just cute girls with cute concepts. Everything we talk about has meaning behind it.
I just have always felt as long as I'm 100 percent honest, then it's just me. It's a lot easier to sleep at night that way.
You have major labels that are willing to take unconventional approaches because the old model is crumbling in front of us.
Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.
My skin is an art gallery right, with paintings and crucifixes hoping to save me from all the dangers in the music business
I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character.
But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper.
Proud 2 Pay - that's something that distinguishes me, that's something that defines me, and we're going to keep that going.
Your whole appearance is a lie and it could never be true. And if you really loved yourself, then you would try and be you.
I don't like new people coming around me. I'm going to really be leery and watch you and take my time before I embrace you.
I just want to be remembered as a dope MC. As somebody who really covered a lot of ground and became internationally known.
I was always really smart in school. My whole family is smart. We have 'Jeopardy' challenges and have Scrabble tournaments.
The best advice I've ever got is to be yourself. Stay true to who you are and what you stand for and you'll go far in life.
It's so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs... we should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics.
I'm not saying girls are perfect, because we all know that's not true. But why be unfaithful to her if she was true to you.
I don't know how to change the world but I know if I keep talking about how dirty it is out here, somebody gon clean it up.
When my Mama asks me will I ever change, I tell her yeah... But it's clear I will always be the same until the end of time.
Papa wasn't man enough, couldn't stand up to his responsibilities. Instead of taking care of me, he'd rather live lavishly.
I don't advocate senseless violence of any human being. I'm the one who's been beat down. But I will not be a victim again.
You can't live for other people, you know? You gotta live for yourself and better the people around you and make an impact.
I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.
'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.
I most definitely respect Jay Z hustle and everything he built. He's a businessman first and I think he respects my hustle.
When some artistes give a hit song, they keep repeating themselves in the same genre. I always try to create something new.
It was [Kanye West] who spoke, and then we met and recorded some songs. After, you know what it is: we all bump like crazy.
I did a song in eight minutes. I thought everybody could write songs that fast. But working with a lot of them, they don't.
The object is to make beautiful music for people to have forever. Music that stays - not just becomes a ringtone. Longevity.
My TV stays on ESPN all day long, I'm one of those. I don't even listen to music in the car, all I listen to is sports talk.
There ain't no time to be wasted, the world is going under... Nowadays, can't tell Fall from Spring, and Winter from Summer.
People are foolish if they think I'm going to lose my head and give up anything to anyone just because someone threatens me.
I just sit there and try to think of stuff that I could do that's a little different but still not step outside of who I am.
It is stupid not to talk about sex. It is stupid not to communicate with your spouse and your children. It can't be a taboo.
A man becomes as attractive as an attractive woman when he becomes successful and is publicly noted. Power's an aphrodisiac.
Faith allows me to feel that as long as I'm in line with God everything will be O.K. and that I'll make it through whatever.
Columbia tried to put me behind other groups, so I didn't wanna wait, they let me out of the contract and I'm glad they did.
One thing about being a celebrity that I learned a long time ago was that I pretty much gave up the right to fair treatment.
And I always try to make a clean, honest, product and ideas for people to get into that can transcend time. Like the Dougie.
Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh when you can. Apologize when you should and let go of what you can't change.
Dying to meet your girlfriends that you said you might bring. If they're the ones that tell you that you do the right thing.
Nobody understood what it was like to be black and Jewish... being different from everyone else just made me a lot stronger.
Damn where my roof just go, I'm somebody that you should know Get to shakin somethin cause that's what Drama produced it fo'
Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.
If I'm out of town and I'm in a situation where I have to be creative, it has to be hot dogs because that's my comfort food.
I think I weighed about 450/460 at my heaviest. That's huge! That's Fat Joe. And you know, I always took pride in being fat.
I want to express the feelings that everyone has felt at least once in music so i think people will feel/understand my song.
Since the whole world is now concerned more about K-pop, I want to make more great songs which can be listed to as classics.