"The more I come into contact with people, the more I realize that there's maybe thirty percent of us that got into the business off a genuine love for music, whereas the rest of us have certain motivations, whether it be money, women or certain lifestyles. I just like to make music, but when you transfer that to the role of a CEO, your focus has to change a little bit.. you have to sell it.. part of being a mogul is being everywhere all the time. I just want to make good music and make a very good living in the process.. At the end of the day, if none of this ever happened and I was interning in the studio, I'd still be going home every night making beats."
- Just Blaze, Complex, April/May 2005
"Anything you do, as it starts to get more serious you have to really like to work at it."
- Vince Vaughn, Complex, April/May 2005
"I'm really hooked on Pornucopia, you know those late-night sex shows on HBO. It's so interesting. It turns on my mind. I mean.. I guess it does stimulate me physically. I don't know.
Maybe I could do a sex cooking class or something. Knowledge is really what turns me on, like did you know that chihuahuas have a psychological syndrome, they can adjust their size to match what they see? In their own heads they can be as small as a coffee cup or as big as you, it all depends on what they're facing. That's why they're such little shits; they have this syndrome that gives them illusions of grandeur. I was so turned on by that. Knowledge is sexy." - Zoe Saldana, Complex, April/May 2005
"I'm not worried that it's not gonna happen. I'll make it happen. You go make the things you want."
- Brad Pitt, GQ, June 2005
"My thoughts on contemporary hip-hop are that the underground cats are too damn serious, and apparently they have the same aspirations [as commercial artists.] I mean it's the age of irony, you got the whole underground cats, they want to live the big life, then you have the big cats who just want to be underground.. It's so funny, underground cats are supposed to be so derivative of old school hip-hop, but the only true people that are really hitting the mark on the old school hip-hop are like, Cash Money Click, Young Gunz and more of the commercial artists, you know? Like the sound of Lil Jon is the sound of 1986." - ?uestlove, Blag, Spring 2005
"Food stamps.. Eating right when money's tight." - a commercial on Power 105, April, 4, 2005
"Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting." - Christopher Morley
"People around you are only as strong as the weakest one, not the strongest. The minute the weak one fuck up, you fuck up. So I try to keep the right vibe around me." - Sha Money XL, Scratch, May/June 2005
"I've got both feet on the ground. I know that thing of being a celebrity is fleeting. You stay grounded by doing things that come your way that make sense.. Songs are fine and beautiful, but it's great when you get a person to talk to you from their heart." - Pattie Labelle, NY Post, Classroom Extra March 28, 2005
"I know I'm not the most talented girl in town, nor the best looking girl, but I think I'm pretty damn fun and I know how to laugh at myself." - Gabrielle Union, The Source, March 2005
"I really am a grown man right now. I was going to court, going to jail, fighting cases, fighting beef in the streets, all this shit. I can't go back to that. And if I was to fully rhyme about what I was rhyming about, it would be fake cause' I ain't living that life no more. I ain't no motherfuckin' killer." - N.O.R.E., The Source, March 2005
"The dopest shit in the world is making it home to your kids. That's the flyest shit. I never seen anything flyer than that. It's easy to not hit a muthafucka in the mouth now, even when you're ready to drop a muthafucka so bad. Now it's like, 'If I hit this dude, I'm going to prison. Or worse, I'm going to start a war, and is that shit really worth it?'" - Billy Danze, M.O.P., The Source, March 2005
"To set the record straight, I'm not a gangsta and never was, I'm not the thief who will snatch your purse, and I'm not the guy who will jack your car, I'm just a brotha who fights back." - Tupac
"Tupac was like a big brother to me. He always told me, 'You gon' be big. You gon' be real big.'"
- Keyshia Cole, The Source, March 2005
"Tupac was my greatest inspiration to write. And for him to be born, alive and writing way before my time (1991) I think that's really special. How I could just look at a piece of his work and get chills and I too would wake up on weekends and just write for about 4 to 5 hours.. My friends would be at the mall but I would be in my room just brainstorming, having a total drought in my books.
My mom knows whomever it is that calls or comes over to my house and she calls me down and I don't answer it's because I'm sleep or writing. The only 2 people I allow in my room with me while I'm working up a treasure is my best friend or my boyfriend. When I was a young blood (still am) Tupac was the only CD my mamma put in to put me to sleep. Now of course I ain't kissin up (never) Jay-Z also is ill. But Tupac is something serious. They the only REAL rappers I know." - (shaken in by Lil Maki)
"...let he who is without thin cast the first mayo, peanut butter and salami sandwich."
- Mr. Bad Food, ediets.com (shaken in by godzchyle03)
"I think people get scared of being in between street and conscious. They feel they gotta pick a certain position. I'm not trying to play the all-positive role or the all-negative role." - Styles, XXL, May 2005
"Fat Joe is the realest. I'm still living the same way. Still walking one deep down Manhattan with 2 million in jewelry on. There's nothing to worry about.. Fat Joe is the nigga with the most street credibility ever. Maybe the only one that had more than me was fucking Pac.. He can set it up; [50 and I] can square off like men. I go to nigga's blocks these days and fight niggas one-on-ones when they talk too much shit about me - regular niggas who want to get it on." - Fat Joe, XXL, May 2005
"I done wrassled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale, handcuffed lightnin, threw thunder in jail. Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick, I'm so mean I make medicine sick. - Muhammad Ali (shaken in STRONGBLACKMANREVOLUTIONREADY)
"It's better to love than be loved. Hardly original..I know. But it makes a mean nigga like me stick around wit'cha cos I ain't got much love ta give anymore." - (shaken in by meaniggr)
"Increase your intellectual activity through patient and serious reflection on the many issues of today...People are restricted soley by the limits of their minds." - Johann Fichte (shaken in by godzchyle03)
"You have to put the past behind ya or you'll never get ahead." - (shaken in by LiVeStroNG)
"If grass can pave its way through concrete, then you best believe you can do whatever the hell you wanna do." - (shaken in by apprentice)
"Mistakes are what makes people human." - (shaken in by The Don)
"Don't apologize for saying what you feel cause that's like apologizing for being real." - (shaken in by d airs22)
"If you don't have money at least have class." - Dr. Melvin J. Griffin Sr. (shaken in by Girlean)
"If you can lay on the floor without having to hold on, you are not drunk yet."
- >>Dean Martin<< (shaken in by ?)
"Women are like apples on trees. The best ones are at the top of the tree. Most men don't want to reach for the good ones because they are afraid of falling and getting hurt. Instead, they sometimes take the apples from the ground that aren't as good, but easy. The apples at the top think something is wrong with them, when in reality, they're amazing. They just have to wait for someone with enough courage to climb all the way to the top of the tree." - (shaken in by Mona)
"Just as BL*nt cannot burn without fire, A thug cannot live without a Thug Miss." - (shaken in by Jae)
"Luv is like swallowin hot chocolate B4 it has cooled off, it takes u by surprise at first but keeps u warm 4 a long time." - (shaken in by Thuggette)
"If the guy you met last night calls tomorrow spouting poetry and sharing visions of love, know that he's been found guilty and just awaiting sentencing; either that or he's a real dim wit and potential stalker (ok cj)....change your number and pray he doesn't know where you live." - (shaken in by Earinor)
"Never stop smiling. You never know who could be falling in love with your smile."
- (shaken in by MostTalented311)
"Friends argue, aquaintances agree." - (shaken in by Sotonsez)
"There comes a point in your life when you realize who matters, who never did, who won't anymore, and who always will and in the end you learn who is fake, who is true, and who would risk it all for you."
- Unknown (shaken in by jencat)
"Procrastination is opportunity's mortal enemy ! - (shaken in by Rey)
"Thirty spokes share the wheel's hub; It is the center hole that makes it useful. Shape clay into a vessel; It is the space within that makes it useful. Cut door and windows for a room; It is the holes which make it useful. Therefore profit comes from what is there; Usefulness from what is not there. - (shaken in by WolverineIOA "Tao Te Ching")
"If you always do what you've always done, you always get what you've always got!!
- (shaken in by MellifluosV)
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."
- Martin Luther King Jr. (shaken in by phi21)
"I’ve worked hard and I deserve everything I have. I never thought I’d have so much money. I just wanted to be financially stable and it embarrasses me and I don’t feel comfortable talking or thinking about it. I don’t know exactly how much I have but I don’t buy much. I’ve had the same car for five years — it’s a convertible Jag which I bought with my own money. It’s very Austin Powers. I don’t flaunt my money. I like to stay at nice hotels but I’m not a flashy chick. I haven’t got much jewelry or anything." - Beyonce, 2004 (shaken in by shellina)
"Im not hating but why does it seem like Beyonce' never has an opinion on anything worth talking about? she is in a position of fame and power with the resources to stand up and speak out about something she is passionate about. she seems very transparent and fake in public. Lookin at Jay-Z who uses his fame to say something worthwhile...what the hell does he see in her? - (shaken in by Laleeta)
"I shoot for the stars so if I fall I land on a cloud." - Kanye West, BBC 1XTRA, May 2005
"I'm a warrior." - Michael Jackson (shaken in by MsKyle)
"When times get hard n shit hit the fan, GOD don't walk wit me, he carry me man."
- (shaken in by iLoVe50CeNt)
"The dumbest part of a man's body is his dick. Have a head with no brains, hang out wit two nuts and stay around the corner from an ass. - (shaken in by Ms T.I.)
