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.

Maybe you's a stank ho, maybe that's a bit mean Maybe you grew up and I'm still living like I'm sixteen.

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.

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.

Most of my show is just improvisation. It goes with the energy of the crowd.

You have to evolve and change but you're always gonna get that street edge out of my music regardless. That's who I am. That's in me and that ain't gon' never go away.

Everything I do is going to be gangsta rap, street based, street oriented... I'm from Gary, Indiana, and everybody's damn near at the poverty level.

I don't have no... I love Lil Wayne. I grew up on the Hot Boys.

I'm a real gangster rapper and I'm a rapper. I just think my music takes different directions. I don't think you can pigeon hole me in one genre. I'm probably the most versatile in the game, period.

I don't like people being something that they ain't, and we got a lot of that in rap right now.

I don't have to rap in a stadium. As long as I can provide for my family and my art, and live comfortably and live well, then I'm good. And with my talent level and my skill level, I'll get there.

Focus on the systematic process and the things you have control.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

It's our duty to get them the things they need when they need it. And it's not happening.

A newspaper is always a weapon in somebody's hands.

And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.

I'm so sick and tired of hearing about slavery. You think slavery didn't exist in Africa? Even Indian tribes.

We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.

The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much.

Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.

I moved out to L.A. when I was 17, dropped out of high school, and pursued a career in music.