I used to call Kanye, Kanye pick up on the first ring, now Kanye don't even got no phone, that's how much times have changed.
I like to mind my business when it comes to other people's business, especially when it comes to beef.
My cousin is Johnny Nash, 'I Can See Clearly Now' Johnny Nash. So I know what to do just by watching what he did. He had a brilliant career. He wrote one of the biggest songs in music history.
Growing up, I got a chance to witness a lot of struggle in my neighborhood. A lot of people struggled, myself included. As I got older I noticed that there was still a lot of struggling going on.
I remember my uncle used to work pouring concrete and as a plumber. Now, I don't see uncles working as plumbers or pouring concrete no more. Let's open up some trades for these youngsters that are getting out of school that are not gonna go to college.
I think one man, one vote. One woman, one vote. But it doesn't work like that. It's not cool.
If you listen to my music then you've been all through District D. That's the South Side of Houston, Texas. That's where I was born and raised.
You can sit back and point out the problems or you can address them and bring solutions to the table.
I play golf every day if I can, but it's not fun and games for me.
I'm serious about golf.
I want to be a scratch golfer. And when I'm 50, I want to play on the Senior PGA Tour.
I've learned from the best. I've had the best teachers in the game.
I would spend a lot of time alone. I'd go in my room at my mom's house and not come out for weeks, just trying to find me. And I didn't always like what I found.
I was raised with the idea that I was born dying. That with every breath you take, you get closer to your last. It's something I've always known.
I'm in Houston on the golf course doing 18 holes every day that I don't have to work or it rains.
There are a lot of hip-hoppers who play golf.
I love 'Pac to death man but let that man rest.
At first, we knew what was going on in Compton by the music that we heard. We knew what was going on in Chicago by the music that we made. We knew what was going on in Houston by the music that was going on in Houston.
I think that the music that I listened to turned me into the artist that I am.
Scarface is just a character. He's just something to look at. He's not nothing to be.
I don't want people to follow Scarface. I want people to follow Brad Jordan, man.
When I was 5, 'American Bandstand' had a lot of good artists on there, man. That's when I really started falling in love with the jams: Gladys Knight & the Pips, Patti LaBelle, Bootsy Collins, Parliament.
I was straight listening to rap at 15: LL Cool J, the Skinny Boys, Whistle, UTFO. And Run-D.M.C.'s debut was at the top of my list.
Coldplay was big for me in the 2000s. 'Parachutes' was a good album.
I just want to make sure I hold up my end of the bargain. My commitment is to the people that listen to my music.
Emeritus' was supposed to be my last album, but things change.
You can't walk into Wal-Mart and just walk out with a TV - you can't just download a TV. So don't go and download the Jadakiss album without paying for it. It cost money to make that album, dude.
You never know what's next for me. I might go into making one of them rock bands.
I'm always gonna be a part of the industry. I may just not be a part of the music industry as Scarface.
Every time I'm out on the road, everywhere I go, somebody got a demo for me.
I just wanted to impress the guys in the neighborhood that I grew up with.
In order to be a great, you gotta be among the greats.
I wanted to make music for my people that I grew up with in my neighborhood. That's kind of the long and the short of that whole 'Diary' album.
I never looked at it like I'm one of the most respected, but I always tried to stay to who I was. The way that I am in my music is the way that I am. I'm just not tryna portray nobody but Brad, period!
I play as many instruments as Prince, and I can write as many songs as him, but he'll be way better than me forever.
My timing came from Funkadelic, definitely.
I think my deepness came from Pink Floyd. And Jimi Hendrix was my idol. I always wanted to be like him.
At the end of the day, you never put your hands on a woman under any circumstances.
I never want to make my music sound like what someone else is doing. That's not my thing.
Police are the enforcers of America's agenda.
People called me Scarface cause I gave them a reason to.
Jay Prince is a real gangster. He ain't hiding behind a desk talking. He is the true living definition of what a gangster is. If you wanna see the truth and what gangster really is, that's what Jay Prince is.
Jay Prince was instrumental in everything that came out of Rap-a-Lot, especially anything that had to do with the Geto Boys or Scarface.
I spent a lot of time in hospitals for depression.
Golf is the best game that you'll never learn how to play.
I had it all: congestive heart failure, malignant high blood pressure, kidney damage, enlarged heart, sleep apnea, borderline diabetic, etc.
Don't label me before we get a chance to talk about it. Talk to me first and see what kind of person I am. That's what I like to tell the media: Come talk to me, let's sit down and talk about what's really going on.
I don't call my music 'gangsta rap.' I call my music reality, something that really happened, something that has really happened, something that will really happen, something that could really happen. It ain't nothing that I'm making up; I think that's why people listen to it.
My responsibility is to feed my family. My responsibility is to support myself.