We gonna teach the ladies they can still respect themselves and still be beautiful.Collection: Respect
It takes a great person to walk away from money.Collection: Money
A lot of people have money, but they don't have peace with it. They can't sleep. They need bodyguards every day.
I think if you want to be groundbreaking, you have to do something that's never been done.
Let me tell you something: being broke ain't going to make nobody come to the Gospel.
Once God puts something in your heart - you know, God talks to everyone different.
Nobody gets as many chances as I got.
I think to put someone in a box is somewhat narrow-minded.
I don't pursue women - they pursue me.
I gotta do what make me happy.
I know God touched my heart to lead the youth back to Him. A lot of people can do it, but He chose me to do it.
I was always a hard working basketball player.
I'm not with G-Unit for protection. I chose G-Unit because I felt like that's the place where the people would be more supportive of a person that is considered a rebel.
Mase was never a filthy artist.
All great artists have some spiritual backing.
You can't do gospel and rap. Either you're of the gospel music, or you're a rapper. You can't put the two together. You can, but is it right? It's questionable.
I could only do music if I could do it the way I could do it. That's what be making me stop, I don't wanna do music in the box.
Money is not of the devil. It depends on who's controlling it.
You make money at anything you're good at. If you're a good doctor, you make money.
I'm the only artist who got paid by Puff, like really, really, paid.
I like J. Cole when he's not taking shots at me.
I want the ladies to respect themselves.
There is a way you can make incredible music without following the so-called formula.
Everybody knows who I am.
I don't get into record beef. That's the wackest beef. That's not even a beef; that's entertainment. Might as well be a wrestler or something.
I actually would say when it comes to something like a person's spiritual walk, it's not really about what I think.
That's the one thing you never judge, another man's spiritual walk. I wish more people knew that, because when you begin to talk about a person spiritually, you invite all types of bad things to happen to you. That's the worst thing you could do, because when you do that you're actually saying that you don't respect anything that's of substance.
Puff always does great collaborations, it's just you need that flair to make it work.
I'm not trying to live anybody else's life.
Harlem World' is all about me doing my thing.
There are a lot of styles out there and, basically, people make a choice.
Rap has always been about using your talents for doing more.
I thought I could do more than rap and I just so happen to be right.
I see different artists making clothing lines and people respected it.
Why is it Christians are more confident in the Devil taking me more than Christ keeping me.
What I have inside of me is more powerful than anything the world could ever offer me.
I think I overachieved.
God called me to be rich.
It's time for us as Black people to realize that we can do more than one thing.
I wanted a fulfilling life, what every person wants. And then I just made a decision to leave music to venture out and go after what it is I always wanted, and that was total life prosperity.
I just didn't want a musical side of me being prosperous but I'm dying on the inside.
My biggest fear was, who would I be without music?
What I have is a personal relationship with God.
Atlanta has always been my favorite place to go, even when I was 'in the world.' When I came down here, people used to show me a lot of love.
I only gave back the devil the stuff I got serving him.
Somebody sold millions of record before. I want to do something that hasn't been done.
I don't do the Mohawk thing. I thought about it and said, 'Nah. I'm too cute for the Mohawk.'
I can only do music if I can do it the way I can do it.
I don't want to do music in a box, like everybody say what I can't do, 'he can't say this.'
I look at Puff Daddy as somebody that gave me a chance to prove the whole world wrong. Cause when I used to think about rap, everybody would say, 'Well, you talk too slow,' or, 'You rap too slow,' when in reality, that was my uniqueness.