I think now the music is good. I tell people all the time who like to be in the music business you got to have a hit record.
Master PI feel like it's okay for us to grow up because a lot of us want to get rich and die young.
Master PYou know, I started doing movies. I mean, my mind was brought into saying, you know what? I want to build a generation of wealth.
Master PTelevision is not like making records. I wanna tell all you kids, do not try this at home, 'cause it's hard. It takes a lot of hard work, a lot of practice, and a lot of different takes.
Master PLet's be honest. We don't take rap serious the way other cultures take rock-n-roll, they take country. They artists are being loved.
Master PI think you've got good people and bad people in everything you do. If you start making a big deal of it, then it's a problem. It's like in life. We've got bad doctors and lawyers. We've got bad priests! We don't target every priest and say he's bad. You have to go to church and you have to go see some doctors. Some people have to be good.
Master PI want to get paid for doing my job and whoever don't like it or whoever don't give me my just due then that's on them.
Master PPeople do look up to me and it makes me feel good. I made it out of a bad situation and I didn't mind bettering myself and I think that is what people respect. Most people go backwards but I was able to look at the big picture.
Master PHow does hating get started? It's started by the jealous people, and they get mad over the things you have.
Master PI think my thing is I grew up in the ghetto, and I was able to get a second chance. That's what I'm trying to tell kids.
Master PAtlanta is a big market for me. They've always supported my music. They took care of my people during Hurricane Katrina, so I love them and I love my fans. And to be able to help and motivate the next generation, I feel like this is the place to do it.
Master PNow my fans are older and they understand how to appreciate me the same way I appreciate them for being there for me.
Master PI feel like God blessed me to be successful and to have a couple of more things that a lot of people of where I come from didn't have or didn't see, but it ain't always about me. It's about empowering the next generation so that's what I love doing.
Master PIf I can go through what I've been through and do a television show with my son and then be a boy from the hood making records for the people I make records for, that's reality.
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