You can put a new shirt on your back, slide a fresh chain around your neck, and accumulate all the money and power in the world, but at the end of the day those are just layers. Money and power don't change you, they just further expose your true self.

Remind yourself. Nobody built like you, you design yourself.

My tears is tatted, my rag in my pocket / Im just looking for love, I know somebody got it

Cough up a lung where I'm from marcy son, aint nothin nice

You not feeling me, fine. It costs you nothing, pay me no mind.

I'm a hustler, baby; I sell water to a well!

I noticed that difference early on, like if you were successful in rock 'n' roll, that was a really bad thing, you almost had to hide it. You had these guys selling 200 million records with dirty T-shirts on. I was like, 'Come on, man. Come on. We know you're successful.' Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you.