If you rocking Steve Madden, we won't go anywhere.
— Cam'ron
When you constantly working, working, you don't really get to appreciate the fans and people loving your stuff.
I'm looking into making toilet paper. It's not an option unless you a bum and gotta use newspaper. It's not an option. Like, it's an option if you wanna drive a car. It's an option if you wanna use a straw. It's an option if you wanna wear a pair of Nikes or Reeboks.
I love having my son in my life. That's why it's more fathers in the hip-hop community, because they probably went through a fatherless childhood like I did.
Certain songs bring me back to certain places I've been in my life. So definitely, I listen to my stuff.
I've never started beef with anybody that didn't start with me first.
I'm Mr. Romance.
Basically, I want to prove to everybody that I can write music - good music.
Me and 50 had a conversation. We good.
There's nothing really to talk about with the police. I mean, for what?
When I was young, I wanted to be like the rappers. I remember being in junior high and wanting a fisherman hat and a link because EPMD had one. I wanted to wear Adidas because Run-DMC wore Adidas. As I came into my own, I just wanted to do me.
I'm the gorgeous gangster.
Seeing Jay Z's just a great example of somebody who comes from a ghetto to rise to where he's at. I think... he done a great job.
You got people that come in, one album, two albums, and they're gone. A lot of people couldn't take the break I took and come back into the game, and people be checking for them.
I work with any producer that brings me a hot beat, but you don't always know if it's a sample.
I don't care if I am doing music: my son comes with me every weekend. If I'm on the West Coast, he'll come fly and be with me. If I'm on the East Coast, I get my son every weekend. It doesn't matter where I'm at - show, no show, whatever. Break or no break. I have my son every summer and every weekend while he's in school.
I'm a caterer, interior decorator - a lot of hobbies people don't know I do.
If somebody says or does something to me first, then I'll respond, and I go overboard with it, and it seems like I'm the one that has beef with somebody.
You want to stay grounded, but you need to keep the music growing.
I roll with the punches.
No record company in the world would say, 'We're not promoting if you keep calling somebody a snitch.' They know what makes money. A record company would never be that stupid. Ever.
Just growing up in Harlem, it didn't matter what you had to do to get fresh - you would do it.
You can get away with black sweatpants for a day or two, but pink is something you wear for one day: the day before you go to the washer or cleaners. When people wear pink t-shirts for three straight days, it disturbs me. It aggravates me.
It's hard to find good business partners and people who do good business the right way.
It doesn't matter where I'm at - if I'm somewhere sitting still for more than an hour, rhymes start popping in my head... It's just kinda instilled in me.
You always gotta take advantage when you can spend time with your kids.
I listen to 'Purple Haze' a lot. If I'm in the gym, I listen to that album the whole way through sometimes.
To be honest, sometimes I get in my shell, and I don't want to do stuff, and sometimes I'm real active.
Maybe I beef with people, but it was never random. Anybody you name, I could give you the reason why it happened or whatever led to the beef.
Music is always gonna change; it's just a matter of keeping up with the times.
I won't just give up anything to anybody because they're waving a gun around.
I just think that rap takes way more slack than the video games and the movies. We don't make guns. Smith and Wesson makes guns. Like, white people make guns and bullets, and all we're doing is rhyming and putting words together.
When I did pink, I did it so I wouldn't be dressing like everybody else.
When I first started wearing pink, it wasn't nothing I planned on doing or strategized. But people showed me so much love for the pink mink I wore, I had to go out to Pantone and create my own color, which is called Killa Pink.
