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I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.
Hip-hop is ever changing but you'll always have the pack. And you'll always have those people who are separated from the pack.
You have to believe in yourself, challenge yourself, and push yourself until the very end; that's the only way you'll succeed.
There's a lot of people scared of me, and I can't blame them. They call me crazy so much I think I'm starting to believe them.
Whoever said that artists shouldn't pay attention to their business was probably someone w/their hand in some artist's pocket.
I fell in love with music at 13-years-old. I wanted to be a singer at first and a drummer. Then I fell in love with rap music.
I flew everywhere for the first 10 years of my career, and I started to not like commercial transport. I just don't feel safe.
If you aim for only wealth, beauty, fame, & power, you aim too low. Humility, gentleness, gratitude, & service is aiming high.
It is possible to call God 'Lord,' to feel emotionally connected to faith, to do the altruistic things and still not want God.
Christians need to embrace that there need to be believers talking about love and social issues and all other aspects of life.
If you subscribe to any moral code that says you should care for humanity, obviously black people will fit into that category.
Death can happen anywhere, but kids in Chicago, like 4 years old, can get shot. You don't really hear that in too many places.
See what I do is I book a studio that's closed down and I go by myself. No one's in there, literally just me and the engineer.
Nowhere else in America is everyone really ready to get outta their minds. No pun intended, like my song. Vegas is that place.
I'm not the same as other people. I don't think the same. I don't do the same things. I just feel out of this world sometimes.
If you wanna leave be my guest you can step Feelin' irreplaceable listening to Beyonce Well, OK, I'll put you out on your bday
All great writers are schizophrenics, you know what I'm saying? 'Cause they switch up. They become the person when they write.
I told her, "I got the chips if you got the dip." She said when I dip, that I better be equipped and keep my hand on her hips.
I usually write songs when I'm in a car by myself and it's usually dangerous because I'm writin' and drivin' at the same time.
A black man, but I feel so blue. So I smoke green and purple to my dreams come true. And my eyes turn red, the sky turns grey.
I like to go on YouTube to see the underground sounds, what the kids are listening to, and kind of gauge my music around that.
Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you're happy... Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.
You can't count a man out because one record went different direction. You gotta count the things that scored, not the misses.
I don't wanna make hood music, I don't wanna make street music, I want to make world music, global music, international music.
Actually doing a song, going to the studio, and just getting out on paper your anger makes you feel a little better sometimes.
Our style of hip-hop, our style of beats, our style of rhymes - you gonna give us burn. We gonna get our burn that we deserve.
I read certain things about history. I don't like fiction. I read about stuff that's real, stuff that's goin' on in the world.
I just want to be happy. You know what I'm saying? I just want to be happy, and I want to be able to make somebody else happy.
Every time someone come out with an album don't change the whole style up but don't do what they are expecting. Surprise them.
I think it's a combination of my peoples that I grew up under, places that I hung out is what contributed to where I'm at now.
Music, life, a lot of the things that we go through in the world, a lot of questions that we have about the world inspires me.
When I was growing up, like from 2003 to 2004, I didn't even go outside, I just watched '106 and Park' everyday. Reruns of it.
It's Christmas time and my rhyme's steady bumpin. Everybody happy, hair still nappy, Gonna steal a gift for my old grandpappy.
Life can change your directions, even when you ain't planned it. All you can do is handle it, worst thing you can do is panic.
All of US sometimes feel that one of the most difficult things in the world is to talk to US about US in an effort to help US.
If you ain't using all the talents God provided you with For the betterment of Man, understand, You ain't nothing but a waste.
There just needs to be a gay rapper who's better than everybody. That's when that question will no longer be able to be asked.
When youre a kid, youre only exposed to whats going on in your mind. The mind is like a bigger-than-outer-space type of thing.
Grime is a particular style of music. You've got electro, funk and garage; grime is its darker side. It's constantly evolving.
I think people have to look at it from a certain view. I say things because, at the end of the day, I can say whatever I want.
It's not the fact that your single can sell. It's the fact that you can sell hard tickets. People will spend money to see you.
If my mama and daddy would've stayed together, one of them would've been dead, and the other would have been locked up for it.
I feel blessed to have had such a background, where animals, food raising, harvesting and canning were a natural part of life.
I might not win a Grammy or get another Stellar Award but I'll get my rewards from the Lord. There's nothing better than that.
This duo inside of me causes the perfect opportunity to live and learn twice as fast as those who choose to accept simplicity.
I want there to be a life for the street element. Instead of we always getting shut out. Instead of defenseless, having power.
Tupac the son of the Black Panther, and Tupac the rider. Those are the two people inside of me. I was raised off those ideals.
I feel close to Marvin Gaye, Vincent van Gogh, because nobody appreciated his work until he was dead. Now it's worth millions.
And in turn I'm hostile guess you could call me anti-social. Niggaz shakin like they caught the holy ghost when I approach em.
Can't nobody touch me right now. Maybe next month all of this will be over. But this month I'm takin' every movin' target out.