Nelly
I think parenting these days is definitely different from when a lot of people grew up. As much blame as we give a lot of our kids for what they're not doing... I also try to give them as much credit for dealing with things that we didn't have to deal with. Bullying was one on one and face to face. Now it's all over the Internet.Collection: Parenting
Strength of 100 men? I'd probably just get mad and hurt somebody and end up in jail. I think invisibility would probably be the best thing. I could be like, 'You know what, let me just see what these folks are talking about over here.' Then you could sneak into Rams cheerleaders' locker room.Collection: Strength
I try not to name too many labels - not because it's not cool, but because it starts getting political.Collection: Cool
I don't believe in luck. I believe everything happens for a reason.
If we don't heal our own hood, who will?
I probably only cried five or six times in my life and I think four of those times was from my daddy kicking my butt.
You think you had it bad when somebody put out a rumor on you in the school; think about somebody putting a rumor out about you on the Internet.
Rappers make what's in, in. If we want to bring back something like Jordache, we just say it and the girls start wearing it. We have a lot of pull.
The fashion world has been great. We started Apple Bottoms about seven years ago; it's interesting to be able to create something from your perspective, for your fans and support. It's a little different for me, because about 70% of my fans are females.
How many people out there really set a budget?
I'm not a big crier.
I believe everything happens for a reason.
You always get that energy, you just want to be heard, to go out, do your thing and show people that we have just as much talent here as everywhere else.
So many people appreciate what you've done, the doors you've opened, but some people realise they're not going to be able to make as much money as they thought possible when you first started.
You never know until a song comes out and becomes what it becomes, obviously you can't predict how the masses will react.
I won an MVP trophy with the St. Louis Amateur Baseball Association. I didn't even start. I was a sub on this team. This was, like, an All-Star game where we had athletes from different teams, different mixtures. We had, like, the only black team in the league, basically. We had four players go to the All-Star game.
I love speed. I love racing cars, whether it's on the streets or wherever. Don't tell the St. Louis police, though.
To get the Nickelodeon award? That's like 'it.' It's one of the best. It's definitely where you want to be in your career.
I stand for the Midwest. That's why the album's titled 'M.O.,' 'cause I'm still holding it down like that. My friends and family all call me Mo, so it's kind of like really representing where I'm from and me at the same time.
My nickname used to be Moses - still is Moses - for a long time, and people just call me Mo for short.
As you become a legend in the game, you build more doubters than you build supporters. And that's fine. I think that comes with anything that's challenging. I think it even comes with sports. The older that Michael Jordan got, I think the more doubted he became.
I never was the battle rapper. That was never my thing. I always felt like it's enough room for everybody to do their thing. I like bringing new energy, re-inventing the wheel, so to speak, every time I come out.
I guess coming after 'Country Grammar' and everybody thinking, 'Well maybe, that was it.' To come back with something like 'Nellyville' and to have people accept it and appreciate it the way they did, that was a great move.
I'm a sucker for corn rows and manicured toes.Collection: Corn
Two is not a winner, and three nobody remembers. What does it take to be number one?Collection: Art
My grammar be's ebonics, gin tonics, and chronic.Collection: Education
Lifes strange ,times change, but karma always finds the way. Stay strong, hold on. Don’t let all your dreams fade away. Yeah life can beat you down, what goes it comes around It’s not how you hit the ground, it’s how fast you get back up. And go, keep going ,till it feels like I’m giving my life away Gets hard,and harder, happiness is worth the wait.Collection: Karma
Your own destiny, create your own recipe.Collection: Destiny
If we were born knowing everything, what would we do with all this time on this earth?Collection: Inspirational
Gotta get myself a million, gonna turn that into a billion.Collection: Reality
Wouldn't have no knowledge of wealth, without no knowledge of self.Collection: Education
If we dont heal our own hood, who will?Collection: Hood
Be a mistress to none, but all good to some.Collection: Expression
I can see the greed and envy in your eyes.Collection: Eye
Believe it or not, I swear I'm just a human being.Collection: Believe
Some people actually said I fell off at Nellyville cause I didn't sell as many as Country Grammar. I'm like are you kidding me? Sweat and Suit? I broke history, I was the first rapper to have 1st and 2nd album at the same time ever on billboard.Collection: Country
Nobody living average, everybody jang-a-lang. Nobody living savage, everybody got change.Collection: Average
A great body is a gift you give yourselfCollection: Giving
I smoke herb, but what's the harm it that?Collection: Unanswered Questions
Sometimes as an artist when things come easy to you, you look for other avenues that are more challenging to you and you try to walk those lanes.Collection: Artist
Yoga has been something that's always there to take with me and practice throughout any journey. There's no place I've ever been where yoga hasn't fit itself in. I currently work on a commercial fishing boat in Alaska and I am still able to find time to lay my mat on the deck and practice what makes me the best me I can be, thanks to yoga.Collection: Yoga
I'm a workaholic because I don't want to not work. When you come from basically nothing and you have so much good things happening for you sometimes you have to sacrifice.Collection: Sacrifice
I like my body so much more now since having my baby. It”s just kind of empowering when you become a mother. You just get overwhelmed with this new confidence and you feel really in control of your life. It”s been beautiful.Collection: Beautiful
Hip-hop is more than music, it's a culture. It's bigger than hit songs.Collection: Song
I think some of my inspiration came from just being around music. My family was into music. My uncle had his own band and my father use to sing in my uncle's band. If you want to go to the music influences we could be here all day. That's everybody from Michael Jackson all the way up to people in the game now that inspire me.Collection: Uncles
Smoke that herb and clear your mind.Collection: Alcohol
Sometimes I would ride with my daughter in the car to go make transactions. A couple of times me, her and my baby mother would be in the car and you know we would kind of be riding dirty. So like I said, again man, I was very naïve.Collection: Daughter
Righteous willin, the only thing supreme swimmin'.Collection: Expression
If you're fortunate to get a first album that sells 10 million you have nowhere to go but down. I'm just going to be honest and your measuring stick is so high that haters are licking their chops because you can't do nothing but fail.Collection: Albums
I can get inspired just off the energy of Soulja Boy, just his energy, you have to take something from an artist. Everyone may not look at an artist the same way, but it's something that artist is doing that's creating his success.Collection: Artist