I believe people have a little more interest in reading what I'm saying or hearing me speak because they know I ain't gonna sugarcoat it. Because I give them the truth.
Curtis JacksonYou know how a person is made for something? Eminem is made for hip-hop. The best rapper is a white man.
Curtis JacksonThe only thing that I'm scared of is not livin' up to the expectations of Dr. Dre and Eminem.
Curtis JacksonI think it's impossible to actually be a role model. I think on some level, you'll have your flaws or defects of character, regardless.
Curtis JacksonIf 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.
Curtis JacksonPeople often say I have so much energy, that I never stop; but that's what it takes to accomplish your goals.
Curtis Jackson50 Cent is a metaphor for "change". But originally it was a gangster from Fort Greene Projects named 50 Cent and I took the name when he passed and because he's not active, I thought it'd be cool to take it.
Curtis JacksonYour opinion of yourself becomes your reality. If you have all these doubts, then no one will believe in you and everything will go wrong. If you think the opposite, the opposite will happen. It’s that simple.
Curtis JacksonI'm not a gangster, I'm not a thug.. I'm just me and if I feel like someone is trying to hurt me.. yeah I'm gonna hurt 'em.. if you come and you ain't coming right I'm gonna blow your head off.
Curtis Jackson2Pac wrote about life threatening situations after being shot so often, it made it seem like he was obsessed with it. He even wrote music and material that he left behind after he died that made reference to him dying already. I think the significance in that ties back to us knowing that that's our fate.
Curtis JacksonWhen I nearly died it made me think – this can happen again any second. I better hurry and do what I want. I started to live like I never lived before. When the fear of death is gone, then nothing can bother you and nobody can stop you.
Curtis JacksonAt that age, it's one of the worse things in the world to wake up and not see your bike where you left it.
Curtis JacksonMy grandmother, she's been the positive portion of my life the entire time. She raised us Baptist, and when I got old enough to say I didn't want to go to church, she didn't force me. She was cool.
Curtis JacksonYour fears are a kind of prison that confines you within a limited range of action. The less you fear, the more power you will have and the more fully you will live.
Curtis JacksonGet into the music business. This is the business that you have absolutely no requirements. You listen to music, you need no college degree.
Curtis JacksonWithout music I wouldn't have the ability to be in business. The opportunity to be in business came with the finances from music and the notoriety that comes with being successful as an artist. So I see myself as an artist first, but I'm absolutely conscious of business.
Curtis JacksonWhen my son came into my life, my priorities changed, because I wanted to have the relationship with him, that I didn't have with my father.
Curtis JacksonIn business there's people who have talent and there's people whose talent is to take advantage of people who have talent.
Curtis JacksonBeware of feedback from friends whose judgments could be tainted by feelings of envy or the need to flatter.
Curtis JacksonWhen you work for others, you are at their mercy. They own your work; they own you. Your creative spirit is squashed. What keeps you in such positions is a fear of having to sink or swim on your own. Instead you should have a greater fear of what will happen to you if you remain dependent on others for power. Your goal in every maneuver in life must be ownership, working the corner for yourself. When it is yours, it is yours to lose - you are more motivated, more creative, more alive. The ultimate power in life is to be completely self-reliant, completely yourself.
Curtis JacksonI feel a huge gratification out of being right. To see my projects connect in a way in which the audience is passionate is a huge compliment. For me it's like, if a person is ambitious enough, they run in a tunnel that doesn't end...And I learn things about myself all the time.
Curtis JacksonStay to yourself, just listen. Do more listening than talking. The more you speak the higher the chances you sayin the wrong thing.
Curtis JacksonIf you consider yourself a part of the culture, then finances can't allow you to be bigger than the actual art form.
Curtis JacksonI'd like to connect with music like I did in the beginning. To have that intensity again, to have a song that comes on at 1 o'clock in the morning and it's the premiere song at that point. It's almost magic because, when you condition for it, it doesn't take long for you to write the content that everyone in the world can agree on at one time.
Curtis JacksonI like generals. I like Napoleon. I like strategy. The majority of them are praised for mass destruction, but it's exciting to see how it comes to the mind mentally.
Curtis JacksonMove before you think you are ready. It is as if you are making it a little more difficult for yourself, deliberately creating obstacles in your path When you feel that you must work harder to get to your goal because you are not quite prepared, you are more alert and inventive. This venture has to succeed and so it will.
Curtis JacksonWhen you get in a point when you generate finances in a circle of people they gonna treat you different. They gonna treat you like as if you're gonna bring the money. You're the cash cow.
Curtis JacksonEvery negative is a positive. The bad things that happen to me, I somehow make them good. That means you can't do anything to hurt me.
Curtis JacksonEither 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.
Curtis JacksonEvery night I talk to God, but he don't say nothing back. I know he protecting me, but I still stay with my gat.
Curtis JacksonIn my neighborhood... they view the police as someone who comes to take their loved ones away.
Curtis JacksonThere'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.
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