When money was plentiful, I was the first one who told you to stack it. Live your life with it. Now that money slowed up, I'ma be the one telling you to save it like they ain't gon' make it no more.

When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain't to be played with. You've got people that lost their lives and people that are doing real time. If we gon' make music, let's just make music.

My hustle is nonstop. I never stop hustling.

A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.

Anything that looks good makes you feel better.

Everyday, all day I have to be productive. And when I ain't productive, I get concerned.

Honestly, I'm on the road so much that I never really get a chance to go to baseball games.

I could sit right here and have a 15-minute conversation with somebody and change their whole life.

I don't know how to be a rapper. I just know how to be me.

I never ever paid attention to any election.

I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.

I'm a motivational speaker.

I'ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.

I've got to pay $5 for gas just like everybody else.

In middle school, I had an '87 Regal. That was unheard of.

It's not the average people that come to my show.

John McCain... looks like a fraud to me.

Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.

Music is how you feel.

My fans are my family, because they understand me and I understand them.