I ain't no gangster. I'm a grown man trying to run a business.

I'm passionate about everything, like my family and friends. Anybody I am talkin' to is gonna be bona fide real. There is no substitution for happiness. Period.

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

When you're dealing with TV and with movies, people dont take it as serious as they do with music. If a rapper does a song about shooting people on the block, and goes into a restaurant or grocery store, people grab their purses because they're afraid the person is violent. With TV and movies, people know it's okay, it's just a script.

How could you be from the ghetto and be a rat?

If you wanna cross somebody, then do that. Don't act like it wasn't you

I don't care about how many times somebody recognizes my face.