"I don't care what it is, golf, basketball or pool. If the person standing between success and failure is me, then I'll take myself everytime." - Michael Jordan, The Green, June/July 2004
"I didn't even like "All About The Benjamins." Actually we was rhymin for Big. We was in the midi room. That's the joint in the middle, that lil joint where you listen to beats. We was in there having a cypher rhymin for Big. Puff came in there and heard me kickin, that was my rhyme.. 'What ya'll wanna do? Wanna be ballers..' He was like, 'Yo, I need that, I need that.' He used to have a tendency of doing that, 'let me get that.' So I let him get that and just dropped another verse on there." - Jadakiss, Elemental, Issue 58, June 2004
"I don't know why my man [Mario Winans] made that song 'I Don't Wanna Know.' I wanna know so I can get the fuck outta here and leave ya punk ass alone. Especially if I'm spending money on you or taking care of your little punk ass and you out there doing that shit. Fuck that. I wanna know everything."- Ghostface, XXL, July 2004
"I don't answer sexual questions. I'm a virgin." - Nicole Richie, Stuff, July 2004
"Ghetto is when you eat all the meat off a chicken bone, it looks like a damn fossil...I love chicken.
- (shaken in by Great Dayz)
"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars." - J. Paul Getty Jr. aka Getty gas stations
"She has the stage presence of an umbrella stand and she can't sing or dance."
- Keshawnta commenting on Brandy wanting to tour w/ Usher (shaken in by butter roll stephens)
"Memories last forever. Never do they die. True friends stick together and never say goodbye." - (shaken in by Jenna and Jess)
"The hardest thing in life is to watch someone you love, love someone else." - (shaken in by Jess)
"You know tha world's goin crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named Bush, Dick, and Colon." - Chris Rock, Never Scared, HBO, April 17, 2004 (shaken in by Baby_grl*)
"Money and Respect are about the same...they are both earned not given. - (shaken in by Kenfolk)
"Life is nothing but a series of gambles. You may crap out, but that's a hell of a lot better than living with what-might-have-beens. Ain't it? - Lisa, Ghettointellect.com/mylife (shaken in by jirzygurl)
"If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter." - John Gotti (shaken in by phi21)
"You'd be suprised at what you can do when there is a gun pointed at you." - (shaken in by phi21)
"Now Lil Kim is in madd trouble with the shooting last year she claimed to know nothing about. Here's the crazy part, I'm repeatedly asked if the hip hop cops suspect deeper ties into the underworld, when in reality it has just been over dumb shit ... like she got dissed in a record or a song" - Chuck D, Terrordome, Publicenemy.com, April 17th, 2004 (shaken in by Den Rock)
"Why spend your whole life tryn 2 fit in when u were BORN to stand out ?! - (shaken in by ReReBaby)
"I'm the most anticipated since Jesus!" - Roscoe P. Coldchain, Rap City - after being asked by Big Tigger about his street buzz (shaken in by Atlas)
"Never fight with ugly people; they have nothing to lose." - (shaken in by Kyle)
"I hate to say this, but at this point a vote for Bush is a character flaw."
- Janeane Garofalo, The Daily Show (shaken in by Kay)
"There is no special thing that we are meant for, unless god appoints us one. But is god real? It seems cynical to ask, but life ends and begins. Everyone must wonder, "What is the point to life."
- (shaken in by Numchuck Jim)
"Darkchild wasn't exclusive with it....They created a sound with me, and they gave it to everybody, and I didn't like that. Every female that worked with Rodney Jerkins had my sound." - Brandy, Vibe, July 2004 (shaken in by a-nat)
"I ain't in nobody else's hurry."- R. Kelly, Vibe, June 2004 (shaken in by MOTHERSHIP)
"Best girlfriends can be very affectionate with each other. Just because we occasionally hold hands doesn't mean this thing's about to turn into Girl's Gone Wild Spring Break. So simmer down." - Christina Applegate, Esquire, July 2004
"I got my name from every time my mother used to take a shit my father used to go 'whoowee.' 'Whoowee' is like a Haitian yell. He was like 'Whooweeee,' and we would go crazy. I took it to High School, then every time somebody would get beat up or something would happen I would be like 'Whooweee.' Then they called me the Whoo Kid. When I became a DJ I just kept that, put a DJ in front." - DJ Whoo Kid, Don Diva, Issue #17 June 2004
"We may have found a young Mary J Blige."
- Clive Davis talking about Fantasia Barrino, Rolling Stone, July 2004
"Don’t tell someone to go to hell, unless you can really send him there." - Raed Jarrar, 6/23/04
"How desperate were Malone and Payton for a ring? They tried to sign with the Pistons at halftime."
- Craig Kilborn, June 2004 (shaken in by Chucktown_Chica)
"Oh, so they have internet on computers now!" - Homer Simpson (shaken in by chops)
"Now that I'm rich, I can concentrate on some more important stuff like gettin richer."
- 50 Cent (shaken in by Shot Off)
"When my mother died I didn't understand death. That's when I saw what everyone sees: You can't make a deal with death. No, sir. And you can't make a deal with God. Death is cold blooded, and maybe God is, too. Made me realize I had to depend on me. No one was going to do shit for me. You hear me? No one. I could praise Jesus till I'm blue in the face. Pray till the cows come home. But Mama ain't coming back. So if Mama gave me religion, the religion said, 'Believe in yourself.'" - Ray Charles, Rolling Stone, July 2004
"Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind. There's no other definition of it." - F.S. Fitzgerald
"Music is like movies and boxing: all three were better back in the day." - (shaken in by phi21)
"I got 99 problems and my job is one, Hit me!" - (shaken in by L Dot)
"These days an income is something you can't live without--or within." - (shaken in by J-Roc)
"Life is like a coin...you can spend it anyway you want...but you can only spend it once!!"
- (shaken in by mad gyal)
"Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know." - Louis Armstrong (shaken in by Grifter)
