I have the weirdest career in hip-hop, and I say that because I started so young. I started So So Def when I was 17 years old.

Welcome to Atlanta' was a song I wanted to do on my first album. The idea was for me and Outkast to do it, but I could never come up with a beat for us to do it. Outkast beats and my beats were very different.

I make music not to make money but because it's in me.

I stopped writing lyrics down on paper after me and Jay-Z did 'Money In the Bank.' They're something I just hold in my mind.

As long as we have have predatory capitalism, we'll have guns because the gun industry loves to make money out of guns.

Black film,' unless it's lucky enough or creative enough, or timely enough to build a life of its own, hangs subjacent to 'white film' on Hollywood's financial score board... aided and abetted by the supposition that so-called black film has no foreign market.

If you're going to be successful, you better have a goal, you better find really good people, better understand where all the money's coming from. And you better measure the living daylights out of it.

The best football players in the world still earn very little money compared to people who really earn money.