I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I'm doing, you know what I mean? And I think what's gon' separate whoever's gon go for something, that you ain't gon' quit.
Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.
Material things ain't nothing. You feel me? At the end of the day, it's who you is. You wasn't born with it; you gon' die without it.
Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it's happening.
It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.
I say that in the most humble way: I always knew that I could perform with the best of 'em and I could deliver with the best of 'em.
Not one person can make or break what I'm doing, except me or God.
I believe that economics is based on scarcity of markets. And it's possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.
You've got to have faith in what you're doing and not take no for an answer.
Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.
I identify myself as a hustler since I was a young kid.
We don't want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.
Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can't take steps toward whatever your goal is.
I'm at peace with what I'm doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.
You're not going to scare me into being somebody I don't want to be.
Thought is powerful in all phases. Even in my career, even in my life, things end up exactly how I visualized them.
Black people in America, people from the struggle, immigrants, it's no generational wealth that we are attached to, so we are tasked to create - in one generation - closing the gap. That's why we so Doomsday about getting to the check: 'cause it's life or death for real.
I think everybody's trying to get to a place in themselves where they conquer what they was afraid of; they achieve some of their life goals, kept their word about what they were trying to do.
It's not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It's about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.
We represent a hustler. I think we represent inspiration. I think we represent, you know, staying down. I think we represent building yourself up from the bootstraps.
