I make all types of music. People wanna put me in a little box, and they get mad when I don't stay in there.

I don't like new people coming around me. I'm going to really be leery and watch you and take my time before I embrace you.

I like a lot of the new artists, but there's only one I can name that stands out to me the most: Kendrick Lamar.

Hip-hop music was our life.

Basically, I've always raised my kids that people learn from their mistakes, and every father wants their kids to be better than them.

There isn't just one black experience out here.

It was the camaraderie and the friendships, too, that really drew me to Queensbridge.

I wanna like Obama, but he's all about the world government, world banking, war, and stuff like that. You know what I'm sayin'? He's a phony.

When we signed to G-Unit, 50 made us sign the paper that says, 'You can't talk about nothing about me.' He makes everybody sign that.

I was a very serious child who never got to enjoy life to the fullest like a normal, healthy kid.

I used to be cold and emotionless. I believe the disease I was born with made me that way.

You got a lot of fradulent rebels and revolutionaries who are really false prophets.

I like any shoot-'em-up game with guns in it.

All the 'Scarface' beats that you hear Mobb Deep sample, that was my idea.

We started writing songs like 'Shook Ones' and 'Survival of the Fittest' explaining our neighborhood, but more our personal lives.

At 19, I felt like I was 40.

I found that preparation is everything when you cook.

I've learned to respect Rick Ross' music.

I read certain things about history. I don't like fiction. I read about stuff that's real, stuff that's goin' on in the world.

When we were making 'Juvenile Hell,' we were listening to the Jungle Brothers, Big Daddy Kane, Rakim, Biz Markie, A Tribe Called Quest.

I'm a creative person, and I'm gonna be creative, so whoever's upset because of that, that's too bad.

I always make hardcore songs, hits for the block.

We didn't have any problem with 2Pac. We liked his music.

I can't front: I like Kanye.