I was angry when I was young, but I was never really that violent. I hardly ever fought, mainly because I wasn't very good at it.

It's not like I feel like I've accomplished nothing, I just have to forget about what I've accomplished and just accomplish more.

Seeing Jay Z's just a great example of somebody who comes from a ghetto to rise to where he's at. I think... he done a great job.

Girl they love me like I'm Prince, like the new kid with the crown. Bunch of underground kings, thought you knew how we get down.

Reviews condition people. At the end of the day, a lot of human minds are malleable. They can be easily shaped with strong words.

Food is like a legal drug. You can take 50 cents and walk into the store and buy a Twinkie and get high. And it's killing people.

I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.

I've always been a person that, if I'm with a woman, she's in the picture. Even my son's mom, she was on my early (album) covers.

Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.

I'm still doing me. I try to come up with different concept for my shows, you gotta keep the people interested, but I'm still me.

In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.

So it's like the underground world no longer exists economically cause they're not giving money back to their supporting artists.

I can sit in the boardroom and battle it out, step up and be a project manager, take risks, and put my ideas alongside anybody's.

I like tattoos. I'm gonna be covered. I'm not going to touch my face or under the chin on the neck: it's my least favorite place.

You can't tell my fans that there's a better rapper than Machine Gun Kelly... Hands down, there's no way I'm not in the top five.

As I was coming up, there was so much naysaying, there was so much doubt, whether it was from my peers or people in the industry.

The amazing thing about being a dad is to be able to look at your child and realize that the universe is so much bigger than you.

You know, I started doing movies. I mean, my mind was brought into saying, you know what? I want to build a generation of wealth.

I plan on continuing to explore all the possibilities of technology, and then finally film and television and movies. Embrace it.

I gotta feel like what I'm giving the fans is 100 per cent and that it's game-changing. I don't just throw out microwave records.

The reason I want to be alone, is I'm tired of all the things that went wrong that would've went right if I had did 'em on my own

Self-righteous and entitled but they swearin' on the Bible that they love you When really they no different from all your rivals.

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up.

I think that you have to believe. That's one of my biggest mantras, is believe. I wouldn't be here if I didn't believe in myself.

You the girl I been lookin' for my whole life God bless me, I'm glad I got the insight Because of you girl, now I understand life

People say they throwing a bboy jam but it is really a bboy competition, there's a difference! Call it the correct thing, please!

It's an unexplainable feeling, an expression. It's a touch, it's a feel. Once you feel it, it's like no other thing in the world.

When you're a kid, you're only exposed to what's going on in your mind. The mind is like a bigger-than-outer-space type of thing.

I'm gonna walk super, super slow to when I turn 40 or something. To me, walking and floating slow represents how wealthy you are!

I'm the rebel totally going against the grain. I always want to do the extreme. I want to get as many people looking as possible.

When I started getting into West Coast rap - The Game, then I started studying a lot of Tupac Shakur and watching his interviews.

My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from.

You know, social media unites us with our fans, gets the middle man out of the way, and you get to directly hear what they think.

The conditions in the prisons operated by the Mississippi Department of Corrections are absolutely inhumane and unconstitutional.

I wrote my first rhymes around 8th grade. After serving a year in juvenile detention, I decided to pursue my career as an artist.

I never thought that alcohol could ease the notion of the sadness, Now what used to be a happy home done turned into some bad sh!t

I think us, especially as black people, we don't necessarily talk about our feelings enough or talk to someone about our feelings.

There are still recording artists out there doing things for the right reason, but a lot of people seem to be just driven by fame.

This is a very pivotal time in America and I think families are still reeling from events depicted in that movie [The Big Short ].

Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that.

Look in my eyes, see what I see Do what I do, be what I be Walk in my shoes, hurt your feet Then know why I do dirt in the street.

Let em' know that amidst all the confusion; some of us may do the winnin but.. We all do the losin, it's just who does the choosin

An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty.

I think I'm gonna wear Timberlands until I die, man. They may not be the hottest thing out, but Timbs keep reinventing themselves.

When I was young I was working with a lot of people being out in the south. My uncle wrote for Al Green and I was around Al a lot.

Films portraying successful black people getting married are great, but films that only show one aspect of our culture, bother me.

I said, 'Hey', she said, 'Hi.' I said, 'Us', she said, 'Try,' 'And if you're thinkin strictly boots, then I'll say baby, bye bye.'

As for my stuff, I'm just doing guest verses for other people's records. I try to stay recording, because if I don't, I get rusty.

Whenever I come out with a hit record, they'll say, 'Ah, that's because of R. Kelly. Oh, it's because of Ashanti. Oh, he's lucky.'

Rihanna takes risks, and I love a woman who takes risks. It just goes to show you have your own mind and your own way of thinking.

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