I spring train in the winter, around early December...

Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all.

No matter where you go you are what you are player and you can try to change but that's just the top layer man you was who you was before you got here

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

Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don't think it's given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I'm going to make a very bold statement: Hip-hop has done more than any leader, politician, or anyone to improve race relations.

All these ways we classify things as R&B and hip-hop and rock... It's bullshit. It's all music. If you put yourself in that box, then you won't be able to hear that it's all music at its soul.

Your future is ahead of you. Imagine the notion of the past fifteen years of your life being a blip in your story.