Artis Leon Ivey Jr. Quotes
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I'm still waiting for someone to call me to cater their wedding. But that's gonna cost you. If you want my cousin Jerez to play the sax, that's going to cost you a little more. The sky's the limit after that.
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I'm actually a little bit more tolerant than I thought I was. I've got kids, so I do have a lot of faces.
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I wasn't driving down the wrong side of the street, smoking marijuana, waving my gun out the window.
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'Gangsta rap' is a derogatory label.
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I perform for soldiers because they are important.
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Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighbourhood.
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I came to Baku the same way I would go to Texas - because they asked me to come and play hip hop.
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People treat me nice 'cos I treat them nice.
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I never let any of my sons beat me at videogames.
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I love cartoons. I'm just a big kid.
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I finished the movie a month ago in downtown Los Angeles. I had a lot of fun doing it.
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Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.
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I was hungry a coupla' times but for the most part I ate every day... I got to go to school for free.
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When my mother first passed away some time ago, I didn't enjoy food anymore. I just ate to live. My mother had always cooked so well that I didn't think I could follow her.
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I'd only do Big Brother again if you paid me three times as much money.
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I'm innocent. I've done nothing. I'm a nice guy.
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I've been rapping since 1979.
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Let me tell you the truth: I'm 45 years old. I never thought that I would live to see a black president.
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I've basically got an album full of singles.
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Acting is all about timing. I mean, who has better timing than the MCs?
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I'm never doing a new album. I'll probably do nothing but singles. I'm as good as anybody out there lyrically and conceptually and can go toe to toe with the best of them throughout history. But I don't know how much longer I'll be doing it. It's not really fun anymore.
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We take pride in what we do.
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If it wasn't for the military I probably would not have ever come to Bosnia for vacation.
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'Shaka' is my catchphrase. Emeril got 'bam,' I got 'Shaka.'