I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.
It feels good to have your work respected again.
Don't let them say you ain't beautiful. They can all get fu#ked just stay true to you.
Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.
I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.
If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.
A lot of truth is said in jest.
The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.
Why be a king,when you can be a god?
Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.
I was going to McDonald's and Taco Bell every day. The kids behind the counter knew me - it wouldn't even faze them. Or I'd sit up at Denny's or Big Boy and just eat by myself. It was sad. I got so he...
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. And if you're always the new kid, you never get a chance to adapt, so you...
Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, beca...
The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.
People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now.
If you have enemies, good that means you stood up for something.
You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars, you go to clubs, e...
Sometimes I'm real cool, but sometimes I could be a real asshole. I think everyone is like that.
Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's a...
Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.