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Revolt is my new - cable music network. It's distributed through Time Warner and Comcast. And to put it simply, it is the ESPN of music.
I'm very versatile and there's nothing I really regret in my life. I'm excited with who I am and I'm just going to keep riding the wave.
I always made a few records in the past - 'Aston Martin Music,' 'Diced Pineapples' - that the ladies would always be able to appreciate.
I'm not the average person so when somebody sees me it's going to be bipolar: it's one or the other, you're going to love me or hate me.
I want to change the color of Starbucks from green to red. Whose job was it to say, This is going to be green? I want that to be my job.
Your voice is like a very serious instrument that you have to tame if you want to be an amazing singer - Marvin Gaye or Michael Jackson.
I collect different game hats, like Syracuse Women's Volleyball; I have a Navy Basketball hat. They're all vintage but in new condition.
That's the new picture of the good life that I want to paint - living the way that God created us to live. That's what the good life is.
I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.
I'm not thuggin' for me, I'm thuggin' for my family, I pay all the bills, I feed my whole family, wrong or right, I do and I can't stop.
I bring people on stage with me. It's a good time, and people love to join in on the party. Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
You get into the biggest fights with the people you care about the most, because they are the relationships you're willing to fight for.
How much for the bottle, put it on my tab. Hop out like a model all them foreign tags. Get so drunk and high, I will have to call a cab.
At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don't let people give you that peer pressure.
When I was young I was getting more money than the old heads. I was smarter and tighter, so whoever's team I was on was at an advantage.
My personal career highlights would be getting my first No. 1 record, 'Down in the DM' and getting the second one now with 'Rake It Up.'
It's harder to be a success, globally, and be artistic. Harder to have that balance than just to be artistic when nobody understands you.
I can take all the negative energy and turn it into a positive simply by purging my soul through music. That's how powerful music can be.
You're gonna notice me when I come in. I'm gonna make a statement without opening my mouth, and when I leave, you're gonna remember that.
My thinking is that if we're going to take from a culture, let's take from a culture that has exemplified success for thousands of years.
I grew up in New York City: Harlem, New York. I played ball for probably two of the biggest amateur basketball organizations in the city.
I think I'm the best at everything that I do. I may be biased because it's me. But if you ask me that, that's what I'm going to tell you.
The truth has no form, you know. It's not like walking around trying to actually ask for favors and to be acknowledged, it is what it is.
I read Holes in 10th grade, and I havent read a full book since. The movie version with Shia LaBeouf was OK, but the book was way better.
A lot of artists make art for five years, some artists make art for ten years, a few make art for fifteen: very few do it until they die.
I had T-Pain on one of my singles before anyone really knew of him. I was the first one to put that to life of having T-Pain on the hook.
I feel like this - everybody, every rapper to me, I feel like every rapper got a little bit of E-40 in them, whether they know it or not.
I don't think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.
We took Big Pun, a 700-lb Spanish guy, one of the greatest rappers ever, and made him a sex symbol. Women would wait on line to kiss him.
Oh man, I would definitely love to work with Kanye on something. But it really is all up to him, so whatever he wants to do, I'm with it.
I don't think you can be a good musician if you just listen to rap, or just the [type of music] you do. You gotta be open to other ideas.
Look past the garbage over the trains, Under the ruins through the remains, Around the crime and pollution, And tell me where I fit in?..
My album, 'No Shame,' will give my fans an extremely real and heartfelt experience of what I have been going through in my personal life.
I like crime movies where the crime is so incredible that, attractive as it seems, you don't wanna do it because it's just too dangerous.
You can want success all you want, but to get it, you can’t falter. You can’t slip. You can’t sleep. One eye open, for real, and forever.
I came into this music business at 26 years old. I was a fully developed man at that point. At that age, I didn't have anything to prove.
All my businesses are part of the culture, so I have to stay true to whatever I'm feeling at the time, whatever direction I'm heading in.
When I'm making songs, I never call them hits. I knew 'Bandz A Make Her Dance' was a good record, but I never knew it was gonna be a hit.
I got started when I was about 15, or 16. My first break through was the Vans song with my group The Pack. That became a worldwide thing.
I'm not paying attention to Kevin Durant. I don't have any recollection of watching him play. I can't remember how he shoots free throws.
I ain't thinking of tomorrow, tomorrow thinks of me like a garcia, bulk of money on tha counter, I told her, baby I see you as my cashier
Speak what I want, I don't care what y'all feel. 'Cause I'm my own master, my Pop told me be your own boss. Keep integrity at every cost.
Failure is not an option, and I always felt like I'm a man who doesn't have regrets, and I don't live with excuses. I can't take excuses.
I think it's harder to make a classic now, not because of what people say, but because artists now are so concerned with what people say.
If you don't know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it's kind of hard to put things together.
If you're going to write about rap music and hip-hop, and you don't love it, then we don't need your opinion, and we revoke your opinion.
You can look in a book of wrong and learn more right. If you're reading a book that has all wrong in it , you're learning what not to do.
Dabbling in music and being in music when I was young I had my own view of what I thought music was whether it was jazz, r&b, or hip hop.
What I did in '06 with 'Port of Miami' was classic for that era, for that time frame, and in 2017, 'Rather You Than Me' will be the same.
To be truthful, when I'd be on the bus when I was a little kid, like fourth, fifth grade, we'd always be free-styling and playing around.