Curtis Jackson Quotes - Page 6

I've been in situations like in Tokyo where people sang my song word for word and then when the music stopped, they couldn't speak to me. I've seen the music break the language barrier.

In Hollywood they say there's no business like show business. In the hood they say there's no business like ho' business.

If you don't have finances to jump on opportunites or at least room to support yourself while you're tryin to move into new situations then you can't even evolve.

I think it's easier for the general public to embrace me in a negative way. You have people who already have a perception of me that says I'm a bad person.

Get into the music business. This is the business that you have absolutely no requirements. You listen to music, you need no college degree.

For me success was always going to be a Lamborghini. But now I've got it, it just sits on my drive.

You know how a person is made for something? Eminem is made for hip-hop. The best rapper is a white man.

When I fell in love with hip-hop, there was a terminology at the time called "battling." All that was just battling with other artists, but after Tupac and those incidents when it spilled into the street and turned into a negative situation, battling turned into a beef. A whole new dynamic.

I think either you're creative or you're not. In general, I don't think you need to be in pain to actually be creative unless you're writing love songs. Then you might need to have some ups and downs within your emotions to start to capture that.

At that age, it's one of the worse things in the world to wake up and not see your bike where you left it.

If you consider yourself a part of the culture, then finances can't allow you to be bigger than the actual art form.

I am what I am; you can like it or love it. It feels good to blow fifty grand and think nothing of it.

Now I am in to fat chains, sex and techs, fly new chicks, new kicks, I love you like a fat kid love cake.

When I put out my first mixtape, '50 Cent is the Future,' it was the first tape where an artist did the entire tape in song format.

When you get in a point when you generate finances in a circle of people they gonna treat you different. They gonna treat you like as if you're gonna bring the money. You're the cash cow.

The more my fans know about my past, the more they'll be able to predict and understand some of the moves I make in the future.

Every morning I wake up in a home where Mike Tyson previously laid in the bed and he earned over $500 million his career. It makes me conscious.

I feel a huge gratification out of being right. To see my projects connect in a way in which the audience is passionate is a huge compliment. For me it's like, if a person is ambitious enough, they run in a tunnel that doesn't end...And I learn things about myself all the time.

When I'm actually creating music, I try not to listen to the hip-hop records that are going on, because I think, subconsciously, we steal from each other. If you're listening to a record and it's really hot, then you'll be looking for something that feels like that, or that has a version of it.

I'M PISSIN' ON GROWN WOMEN. R. KELLY DO IT TO CHILDREN.

Sleep is for those who are broke

Death is a large form of entertainment, probably the largest. Watching death in different ways is entertaining for us, whether it's a high-speed chase and a guy grabs a helicopter and flies away. We know the reality of it is that he wouldn't be physically able to hold onto that helicopter and fall to his death. But it's entertaining to watch.

2Pac wrote about life threatening situations after being shot so often, it made it seem like he was obsessed with it. He even wrote music and material that he left behind after he died that made reference to him dying already. I think the significance in that ties back to us knowing that that's our fate.

I get photobombed by the hottest people in the world.

You can do all them push-ups to pump up your chest, I got a 12 gauge Mossberg to pump up your chest, Have you gasping for air after that shell hit your vest. Fear me like you fear God, 'cause I bring death.