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I would say I grew without a doubt. My whole energy in life - as an artist and as a person - has definitely got me smarter and wiser.
Skating has so many styles. Once you pick up a skateboard, you'll find out that it's not a hobby, it's not a sport, it's a lifestyle.
I think that a woman should be in love. I think that love makes the sex greater. Or even if you just really, really like that person.
What you do in your art - TV, music, film stuff - touches people. And they want to touch you. So that's a blessing. I'm okay with it.
I find that when I put my spiritual life first, the rest of my life is easy. When I put my career first, that's when I have problems.
If I was gay, I would think hip-hop hates me. Have you read the YouTube comments lately? 'Man, that's gay' gets dropped on the daily.
The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.
My record company had to beg me to stop filmin' music videos in the projects. No matter what the song was about, I had 'em out there.
Material things ain't nothing. You feel me? At the end of the day, it's who you is. You wasn't born with it; you gon' die without it.
When we signed to G-Unit, 50 made us sign the paper that says, 'You can't talk about nothing about me.' He makes everybody sign that.
I think I'm the greatest chick in the game, and I expect all the others to feel the same way. If not, you're in the wrong profession.
I mean, I'm a fan of Eminem. I'm a fan first and foremost. Maybe before I wouldn't have challenged him, but I'm contemplating it now.
You got two black folk representing us through the Sixties. One of them was for violence, one was against it, and they both are dead.
You gotta eat right, you gotta have healthy habits, you know, and balance out your decadence with a healthy lifestyle during the day.
On my early trips to London and Paris, in 2009, I started to shift to more wide-brimmed felt hats similar to Borsalinos and Stetsons.
I'm trying to fuse popular and commercial music and just make very creative music. It's popular music: it's everything for everybody.
I want to wear something that's not perfectly matching; there has to be something unorthodox about it. I want to create this mystery.
Fear is stronger than love, remember that. Fear is stronger than love, all that love I gave didn't mean nothing when it came to fear.
It's no longer a fad to be down for the young Black male. Everybody wants to go past. Like the gangster stuff, it just got exploited.
Yo I'm seventeen, already sniffin blow. I tell my friends its asthmary time I itch my throat, I got a new show for MTV, Pimp My Boat.
Being single doesn't necessarily mean you're available. Sometimes you have to put up a sign that says "Do Not Disturb" on your heart.
It's important, when you see darkness, to understand that there's light ahead of that, and I'm the living testimony of that, you dig?
Music industry is a very competitive field, and one has to continuously entertain and excite the audience, which is a difficult task.
I am happy film stars are singing in their films. I hope to work as a music director for a film where actors will sing all the songs.
I'm tryin' to build myself bigger than just Ace Hood, I'm tryin' to build myself as a bigger brand - open up clothing lines, colognes.
When you start putting too much thought into it, the music starts getting too revealing. You don't need to know all my inner thoughts.
You think being a man is being strong, being hard, knowing how to defend yourself. But being a man is about learning how to walk away.
I'm just going to do music and when I feel like I've gotten enough music to put an album together then that's when I'm going to do it.
My goal every time I make a record is just to make the funkiest, the best music I could possibly make, both lyrically, and music-wise.
All these Lil' rappers, I'm just kind of getting real irritated by it. I said, 'You know what? Drop the Lil'. Forget it. I'm Bow Wow.'
I loved playing a dramatic role. There's a side of me a lot of people don't know, and when I do dramatic roles, it just all comes out.
I don't play basketball as good as I used to and I hate losing, so I'd rather not be seen in public until I make sure my A game is up.
I kind of always thought that I had a good ear for melodies. I think in terms of melody. I can just be walking and I'll hear a melody.
Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people.
My work throughout my life is always representative of the time we live in. It's all about keeping it in order and keeping it in gear.
Getting on the road and driving along a road at night, or even in the daytime and seeing the oceans or whatever, is always liberating.
Our situation is more psychological than people will admit. Black kids kill Black kids for the same reason cops do. They see no value.
I'm proud of most of the stuff I've put out and I hope my kids will look at it long after I'm gone and go, "hey, Daddy was cool once!"
I know you left me once, but I came right back to find you. Even though I like being in your past, you got a bright future behind you.
I study my competition for at least an hour a day. I get on the internet, look at what they doing, then I look at ways to defeat them.
I can't leave home without certain movies. 'The Godfather' is a big one for me. And I've gotta have my beats so I can write new music.
I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. Thats not what I grew up around.
An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.
Of course, Soviet people would like to see the face of surrounding states changed, but that is the business of the surrounding states.
London is always fun, obviously, but something about Glasgow really speaks to me. Usually what it says, though, is "Let's get wasted."
It just inspires me to release an album and know that I can work on a core fanbase. The grind: Just make good music and it translates.
My romantically favorite era is 78, 79 listening to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 4, the live tapes, echo chamber and break beats.
One of the things that I wanted was to be known as one of the finest MCs and I think the people gave me the respect I was looking for.
My faith is not identified by my title. My faith is identified by how I live. Wearing the uniform is not the same as playing the game.
The music does a lot for me. I'm one of those types of artists who the music really inspires my delivery, my cadence, and what I hear.