If you're not doin anything and you don't have goals and you got nothing to do then you might as well go jump off something, you just wasting the air.

There's a small group of guys in hip-hop that really have money. The whole culture talks about money, but it's a small group that actually has it.

It's not funny when you actually get shot, but afterwards, yeah, it's funny.

I make music cuz it's almost like I can escape everything I was involved in. All I gotta do is make music. I don't do nothin but make music.

If you are ambitious, you are running in a tunnel that never ends. You will always find something new to go after. [...] I got high for the first time with Get Rich or Die Tryin' and I have been trying to achieve that feeling again since then, all the time.

Either you are a victim or you victimize someone and in the hood it's no holds barred. The kid in the schoolyard that doesn't want to fight always leaves with a black eye.

If you were in a bad relationship and you meet someone new, you're going to leave with your luggage. The next person is going to have to endure things that someone else causes.