When a movie based on a book comes out, people always say that the book is always better than the movie. So I'm always interested in reading the book, too.
— Mannie Fresh
'Chopper City in the Ghetto' - a lot of it was B.G.'s real story.
My dad is my biggest fan.
Music is all I know.
I can see how paperwork and foolishness can destroy something.
Flow Tribe is a great bunch of New Orleans guys who have that funkiness to them.
When 'And Then What' was made, Jeezy already had a street appeal, but 'And Then What' put him on the national appeal.
I thank God I've never burned no bridges with nobody, and when it's time for me to call in my favors, they're coming.
For those from my era, my age, that 2Pac vs. Biggie war will go on forever about who is the greatest. But I was more of a Biggie dude.
I'm saying nobody's got the guts to be a J. Cole. Nobody's got the guts to be a Kendrick Lamar. We need more of them... Everybody wants to go the easy route.
The streets buy records, but they don't really buy records in incredible numbers.
'Chopper City in the Ghetto,' real talk, it's what changed Cash Money from a Bounce label to a Rap label.
It's weird being a DJ and you have a playlist of your own songs that you could hold it down for an hour.
That's what I'm tryin' to achieve. I want to be a heavyweight in this game, and I'm tryin' to get the big money. By the same token, the title 'Big Money Heavyweight' applies to everybody in the world. That's what everybody's tryin' to achieve.
Even before anybody liked the 808, Mannie Fresh was on the 808.
When I know it's like a bass song, I gotta go with my SP-1200.
I'm too old to be making dis songs.
The cool thing about G.O.O.D. Music is it's a bunch of great ideas, and I'm one of those ideas.
B.I.G. was like the Alfred Hitchcock of rap. Like, this dude's story form was so nuts.
We recorded 'Chopper City in the Ghetto' in a house that we was living in.
I did albums for Cash Money. I didn't do singles - I did whole albums for Cash Money - and at the end of the day, I'm saying I wasn't paid for albums, so its like you're doing 10 songs, and somebody pays you for 1.
There's been enough building of fences with labels trying to categorize artists, limiting artists' ability to be themselves.
Hey, you gotta love a gangsta girl. Even the suburban and preppy girls wanna be gangsta girls. That's the whole gimmick to it. Everybody wants to be a gangsta girl.
If you know Down South production, Roland 808 is in almost everything.
I've got different drum machines that I use for different things, but I think the older ones are always the best when it comes down to getting that 808 bass.
I don't bash Cash Money, Birdman, or none of them.
There will never be another Biggie ever again.
You had Cash Money: that was just the flashy dudes. Like I said, you had different genres of rap, and we were just one of them. So that's how we fit in. What makes it all confusing - and this is where it's the gift and the curse - we never set out for hip-hop to turn into just something flashy. That was just our thing. It wasn't everybody's thing.
