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When you're making an album, it's, like, exciting every night you make something new, but you're the only one who gets to hear it.
I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.
A lot of people play single to work some angle. I'm always about keeping it real. If that's how I'm living, that's how I'm living.
I think I wanna do some action stuff down the road. I wanna kill some aliens. Something real fun, you know? Just a big, fun movie.
When I was about 17 or 18, I would go through my boy's garage and they had a little studio set up. I would just play around there.
I think reviews have lost a lot of their importance now because of the Internet; everyone is experiencing things at the same time.
But still at that particular level of commercialism I listen to those projects I still hear some stagnation in a lot of the stuff.
Today's circumstances are out of your control but you CAN control your response. Don't let a negative outlook kill your joy today.
As children, we look up to people, for better or worse, and see them as the standard for how we should act and identify ourselves.
I don't really do anything unless it's from the heart - I don't like to joke on people, or distract them from something they love.
I'm good man, repin' Baton Rouge, Louisiana to the fullest. Lettin' everybody know that I got some new heat comin' to the streets.
The songs that I've done represent partying, so when people come see me in Vegas they know that they're going to have a good time.
I just always expect the best because I'm a competitor and if I'm competing, then obviously I'm trying to be better in everything.
Oops, I said on my d-ck. I aint really mean to say on my d-ck. But since we talking about my d-ck, all of you haters say hi to it.
Pink Friday is a celebration of my life at this moment; it is a reflection of me as a creator, and an expression of me as a woman.
We started writing songs like 'Shook Ones' and 'Survival of the Fittest' explaining our neighborhood, but more our personal lives.
You know, 'Paid in Full' is a classic album, man. It kind of got me to where I am now, so I can never get tired of 'Paid in Full.'
I've been playing basketball since forever. The highlight of my high school career was scoring 51 points with 13 threes in a game.
I look at the deejay thing as something - I'm good at it because I have my own music. I have enough rhythm to blend at this point.
I own over ninety-five different hats and, over the years, have lost or given away 120 hats. You gain to lose... you lose to gain.
The main thing is to keep it simple, keep it real, be honest and pull no stunts. You can't forget where you started and came from.
Before I walk onto the stage, it's about the centrality of Jesus and just really keeping a focus on Jesus as opposed to ourselves.
Suge is the boss of Death Row, the don, you understand? But im the underboss, the capo. That's my job to what's best for Death Row
I don't want to be a role model. I just want to be someone who says, this is who I am, this is what I do, I say what's on my mind.
Everybody raps. We rap to make money. We do business. Ain't no other record company out there that sold as many records as we did.
You can do nice things for people all of the time and it's never noticed but as soon as you make one mistake it's never forgotten.
Be yourself and enjoy yourself. Show me a smile and I'll show you one back. Karma: Believe in it. It's real. It comes back to you.
All I’m saying is like, spoil me with your consistency Always remain the same you and you won’t have to worry about a different me
I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.
The maps are really like a filter. They filter information for you to make better decisions on where you are going and what to do.
No driving, no sleeping. Live it up like it's the weekend, when the DJ play the right song gonna drink, gonna party all night long
It was very difficult acting. I feel it is a very tough job to portray someone else's character and to behave like that on screen.
I love the flow of the game. There’s a certain fluidity to basketball. I don’t enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.
I love the flow of the game. There's a certain fluidity to basketball. I don't enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.
When I used to be on stage, I used to be out of breath; I couldn't walk that far. Now, I got so much energy. I can do a whole show.
I was never really like, 'Oh, I wanna be famous,' you know, 'I wanna be a big rapper.' I mean, I love rap, but it wasn't just fame.
I'm just saying stupid, funny things when I'm hanging out on the TV show. When I'm making music I'm in a completely different zone.
I think hip hop should be a living word. And what I mean by the living word is like yo, you gotta have the words that provide life.
When I put out my first mixtape, '50 Cent is the Future,' it was the first tape where an artist did the entire tape in song format.
I'm not the kind of artist that wants to get a sound, refine it, and do it 'til I'm 50 so that it's the purest amber of my one way.
She used to say 'You can be whoever you want, even yourself'.... Yeah, I show up knowin exactly who I was and never leave as myself
I love working with different artist with different styles and different producers with different sounds, creativity is everything.
Back when I was younger, Very ambitious, but often blinded by my hunger. Some say I dream too big, And my dream gon' take me under.
Me separating from CTE - I'm extremely happy about that because a lot of guys wrote me off, Jeezy included. He really wrote me off.
I hope that, even when I'm simply just Kwon Ji-yong, I can be someone who still shines even without all these 'flashy' costumes on.
Who can protect themselves from betrayal? The day your brother wakes up and plans to do you dirty, there's no defense against that.
When I make records I have full control of everything and I know how it sounds before it comes out, with films it's outta my hands.
See them demons and them omens staring at you, mind control, they want your soul. If he don't see a dollar, somebody visiting Satan
With gangs, there could be a positive outlook because it takes the older guys to come school these younger guys on the right roles.
My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well.