I love African American women, but I just don't like my skin complexion.

I just know that I'mma do something in life. I'mma do something productive.

All us got a due date. All us got a death sentence. One day, we gonna die.

I got the type of voice where I can hit a tone if I want, but I ain't trying to be Fetty Wap or Future.

To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.

You had Cash Money: that was just the flashy dudes. Like I said, you had different genres of rap, and we were just one of them. So that's how we fit in. What makes it all confusing - and this is where it's the gift and the curse - we never set out for hip-hop to turn into just something flashy. That was just our thing. It wasn't everybody's thing.

The Pulitzer isn't a physical object. You can't hold it in your hand. You get some money ($7,500 in my day), and you get a little Tiffany's paperweight with your name on it and the image of Joseph Pulitzer suspended in the crystal. When people see my 'Pulitzer' (I keep it in my sock drawer), they are pretty amazed at its meagerness.

When I was a kid, maybe 11, I remember saying, 'When I grow up I wanna have enough money to buy a really cool car, because I won't.'