"It's hot enough to burn down a white man's pizzeria!"
- Ron Bennigton, Ron & Fez, 7-17-06.. 100+ degree day in NYC
"The longest journey in the world was started with a simple step." - some guy on my block.. let's call it ex-con wisdom
"All the things people hate about LA is what I love about it. What's annoying about New Yorkers is they act like they don't care about money and they hide behind societal groups, and it's all the same thing, they just hide it better. LA's not ashamed. Yeah, so we're gauche. Girls will get their boobs done and guys will get their eyebrows waxed and be like, 'Yeah, I did it, so what?' I guess it truly is the land of dreams when a goofy dude from Pennsylvania can come out here, live in his car and hustle for a few years, and end up starring in movies, having his own TV shows, writing a book, and achieving fame and notoriety. People coming out here and putting a headshot on [the web] - that's not really going for it." - Jamie Kennedy, BPM, June/July 2006
"I used to own a bobcat. I like cats. But sometimes you'd come in and the bobcat be sittin' on one of the beams on top of the ceiling."
What was your bobcats' name?
"Mykat" - Suge Knight, Mean Mag, June/July 2006
"Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out." - Frank A. Clark
"As [Mark Cuban] asked one hanger-on to round up some girls, he was overheard saying, 'Just say I'm a billionaire. They'll come over. For every billion dollars I have, my [bleep] gets 10 inches longer."
- NY Post Page Six, May 5, 2006
"I used to carry crates for Biz Markie. He really knew how to get a party started. My DJ name was Sexy Fingers." - Nick Cannon, Blender, July 2006
"I've definitely realized over my years that people would rather not see anything that they have to react to. People would rather cruise through life. They want to see interesting things, but nothing that could possibly be disturbing in any way" - Mr. Lif, Elemental, Issue #78
"Me and Jay-Z and Biggie from the same block, we all went to school together. I'm originally from Brooklyn - right across the street from Marcy projects. I moved to the Bronx in the seventh grade when I ran away from home, I wanted to live with my father." - Tracy Morgan, Mass Appeal, Issue 40
"Every one of them [rappers] is on the 'one' and 'three.' Every one of them. Because they know my style. The Black Eyed Peas albums are my own 'Mind Power' with new arrangements that I wrote. I wrote their parts. That's where I'm at. If you're nice, you can hang around. If you're not nice… but anyway, they were so nice, I wrote their songs. I let them know that what they were bringing is hip, but they now know depth. They, straight up and down, didn't have no jiggle. You know what I'm saying?" - James Brown, Tokion, No. 53
"I just don't know what hip hop is anymore. I mean, I know what rap is. I know what a rap song is, but it doesn't sound like hip hop anymore. It's just sounds like rapping." - Cee Lo, Mass Appeal, Issue 40
"Comedies get mean when people are looking for the easy laugh" - Judd Apatow, Tokion, No. 53
"I knew what I wanted to hear and I knew the things I did not want to hear. I did not want to discuss anything sexually related, anything body related, and anything like money and stuff. That stuff doesn't do anything for me personally, and I think the people that listen to my songs, it doesn't work for them either.. that's a fight that I've had from the beginning. I can't sing anything that I don't feel." - Heather Headley, Xi Twelve, Spring 06
"I think Carl Sagan is the shit. He was more than just a scientist, he was a scientist of life, and I thought he was a genius. He was definitely the king and I completely look up to him. I read Cosmos, and Contact is one of my favorite movies." - Pharrell, Blender, August 2006
"Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable."- Buttah
"In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends." - John Churton Collins
"If you ask something of someone and you are upset over their response, then it wasn't a request, it was a demand." - Michael E. Angier
"In this day and age, I'm kind of noticing that nobody in urban music really has the balls to just stop partying for one second. I mean, partying is good and whatnot, and it's cool to get down, but I really think that 2006 called for a very serious record. This ain't the Debbie Downer record, or the political, save-the-world record, but this is definitely not the MC-based, battle-themed album that the Roots have been known for.. Chuck D once said, 'Hip-hop is black America's CNN' -- but now it's turned into black America's UPN . . . I'm not going to be competing with Yung Joc or 'Lean Wit It, Rock Wit It.' " - ?uestlove, Rolling Stone.com, 7-11-06
"Remember, you can t steal second if you don't take your foot off first." - Anonymous
"Mobb Deep said it best, 'Bow Wow is the future of hip hop.'" - Bow Wow, Vibe August 2006
"I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is a temporary situation."
- Mike Todd
