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"The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!"

"A wise man once said don't argue with fools, cause people from a distance can't tell who is who."

"I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company."

"I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard."

"It's like Patti LaBelle, she has a beautiful voice, especially when she hits high notes. But if she hit a high note the whole song, you'd never want another like it from her. It's the fact that she eases into it, and that it's just a small part, a bridge of a song, makes it beautiful. And that's what life is. It's the bridge of a song."

"Only men can raise men."

"When the grass is cut, the snakes will show."