If you start hustling then don't pay a person what they deserve, pay them what they accept. That's good business. Even if you're not hustlin' pay them what they accept because you can capitalize off of people.
Curtis JacksonEating well was something I learned as I started to be successful and had to travel and perform concerts, which are an intense cardio workout.
Curtis JacksonI have the opportunity to do something positive, I want to stay positive. It's hustling backwards in my eyes when I can earn money legitimately. This is what I want to do.
Curtis JacksonMy past is my shadow, it follows me everywhere I go. Well, all those things come from when I had no other choice. They put my back against the wall. I do what I gotta do.
Curtis JacksonWhen I reached the top in business, I adjusted to my new position โ I became bolder and crazier than before. And I listened even less to people who tried to slow me down.
Curtis JacksonAt first, my love was just to be in the studio and make the music and enjoy it when I hear it played back, but then the biggest thing for me was to see the response of the people. When you go out and see the energy in the crowd, it's incredible.
Curtis JacksonI don't think it makes me a role model. I think it makes me inspiring. Cause I'm from the bottom I think they look at me and go 'well, if he made it, I can make it'
Curtis JacksonWhat we'd consider a positive role model, I think it's impossible to actually be a role model. You'll have your flaws or defects of character, regardless. You just speak like a positive role model, and that's just something that you're being conscious of, and you make the decision, "I want to say positive things."
Curtis JacksonThey don't understand the process I went through and how much I had to believe in myself.
Curtis JacksonI was competitive in the ring and hip-hop is competitive too... I think rappers condition themselves like boxers, so they all kind of feel like they're the champ.
Curtis JacksonA thug is what I want and a thug is what I need. And my friends don't understand, and I think it's jealousy.
Curtis JacksonThe greatest fear people have is that of being themselves. They want to be 50 Cent or someone else. They do what everyone else does even if it doesnโt fit where and who they are. But you get nowhere that way; your energy is weak and no one pays attention to you. Youโre running away from the one thing that you own โ what makes you different. I lost that fear. And once I felt the power that I had by showing the world I didnโt care about being like other people, I could never go back.
Curtis JacksonI don't display emotions. I have every feeling that everyone else has, but I've developed ways to suppress them. Anger is one of my most comfortable feelings.
Curtis JacksonI can't have a lot of people around me all the time. It really bugs me out that I have that many people. I need to be by myself.
Curtis JacksonI'm really sensitive. And they don't understand that, because my most comfortable feeling is anger. So I'll get angry if you said something to hurt my feelings or you're making me uncomfortable, I'll get angry, and be ready to do something about it.
Curtis JacksonI have received 16 Grammy nominations and I have no trophies, because I chose to write the harsh realities. I stayed true to myself and I've taken a little beating behind it.
Curtis JacksonI 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.
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