Drake
I am right at the bottom compared to everybody else with press kits and demos and trying to get meetings. That's what I love about music and hate about it. That's why I respect people that are successful in the music business because you really have to build it from the ground up.Collection: Hate
Once you make something that people enjoy then you are forced to promote it. Instead of just going right into the next project, you have to be where they need you to be and do what they need you to do.Collection: People
Can't you see... that I made it? Yeah I made it First I made you who you are, but then I made it.Collection: Breakup
I like all different kinds of music. I never heavily molded myself after rappers. Sometimes they say when you think something and you go to say it, you lose a lot of color about what you're trying to say, so to me the best rappers are the people that don't lose that color.Collection: Thinking
I got a lot of friends that come up off the strip for me. The same ones that'll come up off the hip for me.Collection: Real
This is one I know you hated when you heard it and it's worse because you know that I deserve itCollection: Hater
She spilled whiskey on her shirt, she gon have to get it cleaned. She been going way to hard, someone has to intervene.Collection: Party
Wayne is my favorite person to work with though, because ooohh, oohh, Lil Wayne is just too good, he's just too good.Collection: My Favorite
Nobody understood what it was like to be black and Jewish... being different from everyone else just made me a lot stronger.Collection: Life
That was your bad, how could you pass up on em? He just take them records and he gas up on em.Collection: Humble
Wouldve came back for you, I just needed time to do what I had to do. Caught in the life, I cant let it go. Whether thats right, I wont ever know. But here goes nothin.Collection: Life
I got the Hammer money, sweetie you can't touch this.Collection: Humble
Six months is the most you can ask of any fan in this day and age, with the Internet and all these new artists. I understand that my music is in a lot of mediums. Some people want me to make an R&B album. Some people want me to never sing again. I just don't want people to be able to draw comparisons between my old songs and my new ones.Collection: Song
I drive two black cars, I named em Malcolm X and Martin Luther.Collection: Humble
And you're wasted with your ladies. Yeah I'm the reason why you always getting faded.Collection: Relationship
15, 16, I mean, 17, 18, is when I was really getting into the hip hop phase and really studying the things that I needed to study as far as learning about flows and learning about lyrics.Collection: Mean
I write best about two things, which is evident from the cover of So Far Gone: the constant quest to understand love and money.Collection: Writing
I swear niggas be eyein me all hard and lyin to they girls and drivin the same carsCollection: Girl
There's two elements to rap: having the thoughts, and then being a great rapper.Collection: Rap
Me being biracial, me being from Canada but having success in the States, I have all these moments in my life where I'm jumping roof to roof. Black to white. Singing and rapping.Collection: Rap
When you have passionate fans, they feel like they're a part of your career.Collection: Careers
Only thing on right now, like a night light.Collection: Night
Since I started, I've always been giving my music away for free. I've always kind of done it for the people. I don't want to lose my fans completely because they support me in a way that's more than just listening to my music. They support me like we're friends. They support me like they have emotions invested in it.Collection: Giving
I'm actually 100% independent. I'm not a Universal artist. I'm signed to myself.Collection: Independent
I have a fan base that some people say is equal to that of signed artists' maybe even more.Collection: Artist
I'm living life right now, maine and this what Imma do til it's over, til it's over.. but it's far from over.Collection: Life
I do it for the love. Bunk bed flow, always one level above.Collection: Love
I never threw away that paper with my Grammy speech because I haven't hit the pinnacles I plan to reach.Collection: Determination
I wish that we lived in a time and a generation where people would stop viewing my honesty as overly emotional. People always act like I spend my life crying in a dark room. I don't, I'm good. I'm a man. I want to be remembered as an artist that gave you a piece of me, as opposed to some surface bullshit. I don't think people realize that we die, we leave here, and either they forget about you or remember you. And how they remember you is up to you. I just want to be remembered as a poet that was open and honest because I wake up every morning and I'm me.Collection: Morning
Damn, tell me where did all the magic go? I followed the rules and told you everything you had to knowCollection: Break Up
Take a look at yourself, the mirror's revealing. If yeen got it, yeen got it the theory is brilliant.Collection: Humble
What's a star when his most important fan is missing?Collection: Stars
What good is all the cash if it doesn't buy time and what good is bein famous if I'm never on your mind?Collection: Humble
Damn where my roof just go? Top slipped off like Janet at the Super Bowl.Collection: Humble
All the care I would take, all the love that we made.. Now you trying to find somebody to replace what I gave to yaCollection: Break Up
Burn bread every day boy, no toasterCollection: Humble
Take shots at em, I guess you could call it a parody. But compared to D, they one-fourth from watermelon to a quarter felon, dude you a pear to me.Collection: Humble
I hope somebody makes a movie about Obama's life soon because I could play him. That's the goal. I watch all the addresses. Any time I see him on TV, I don't change the channel. I definitely pay attention and listen to the inflections of his voice. If you ask anyone who knows me, I'm pretty good at impressions.Collection: Play
I just do it for the niggas that's tryna see a million fo' they dieCollection: Death
How did I end up right here wit you after all the things that I been through. It's been one of those days you try and forget about take a shot and let it out.Collection: Relationship
They tryna shoot down my flight before it landsCollection: Hater
Who killed Chivalry? They need to get their sentencing Meanwhile we arguing and I can't get a sentence inCollection: Relationship
What's up wit these new niggas? And why they think it all come so easy?Collection: Business
When raindrops hit the tin roof it's crazy. That's a metaphor, did I lose you baby?Collection: Life
Girls countin on me to be there like missin rubbers.Collection: Girl
Lookin back on it at least my pride is in tact cause we said no strings attached and I still got tied up in thatCollection: Life
You can't say you're happy either. You don't even smile for me.Collection: Relationship