Damon Dash

You're only the boss if you put up your own money. ”

I don't think my success or me having the opportunity to have success is from our generation. I think it's from the generations before us. I think it's the fact that people like Martin Luther King and Medgar Evers and people like that fought for us to have the freedom to do and say what we want and have the opportunity to make money. ”

Being independent is everything. That's all I know. ”

I don't like to be considered a 'hip-hop mogul.' I don't know what that means. ”

I think that the better sign of an OG is when he's happy that the person that he raised got bigger than him and in a position where they could help. ”

If you remember 'The Best of Both Worlds,' you don't see my name on that... I never wanted no part of that. ”

No one's taken anything from me. ”

The thing is, I have been diabetic, and I've been saying I'm diabetic; it's just, people don't write about it to showcase it or to bring awareness to it. So those are just the things that weren't spoken about. And, just like everything else, I had to do it myself to be heard. ”

It's important to be enlightened. ”

I believe in therapy, and I believe an objective opinion sometimes helps you be a better person. ”