Quotes from Rick Ross

Toomp produced 'White House' on my first record, and we made magic.

If you're a hater we make you scared to show your face. It's called success.

Puff Daddy is a great party thrower. He goes down in the history books.

I believe in building your foundation - if your foundation is not rich, then you are far from rich.

Blast my record out the windows of your Honda Accord. And if anyone gives you grief, you look them right in the eye and tell them Rick Ross told you wealth begins in the heart.

I'm a big chicken guy, and Wingstop chicken wings are my number one go-to, so I just got involved with the company. I purchased a few franchises myself. I like to consider myself a global brand ambassador.

Five years before 'Port of Miami,' I was to a point where I may have even felt like quitting... the style and the wordplay of my lyricism was more complex than what Miami was used to.

Where I come from - it's nothing to glorify.

I ain't gonna lie: I love that cheese.

Being a big guy, you face certain challenges. Over time, though, women found excuses to find me attractive.

I just take everything one at a time and make sure everything I do is the best.

When you listen to records like 'Foreclosure,' that's like me sitting in a room by myself just rapping about things that's running across my mind and things that have been bothering me.

What I did in '06 with 'Port of Miami' was classic for that era, for that time frame, and in 2017, 'Rather You Than Me' will be the same.

I really savor the times of me and all my best friends and family members getting together.

Love is for free, just expensive to shop.

Being fly is something that I consider myself. I would love to be at some point.

If you set a regimen up, you can lose weight. I grinded my weight off.

My father wasn't there the majority of the time. My father, someone who I always honored and looked up to, had been in the military; he had been to war. I would hear stories about different experiences he went through, but as I got older, my father moved away.

Capital Cities - the rock group - I'm a huge fan of theirs.

I respect the Grammys, being a writer. But me being an artist representing hip hop? No.

I'm a hustler. I'm the Boss.

Everybody who know Rick Ross know that, for one, I love creating music, and one of the biggest impacts we have on the game was the fact that when we came into the game, artists was waiting two to three years to put out albums. I was one of the few that put out an album every year along with two or three mixtapes.

'Rather You Than Me' just speaks for my natural instinct to survive, but it's also me being a writer, me being a poet - there's also a beautiful side to 'Rather You Than Me.'

When I was sitting at home watching 'Yo! MTV Raps' as a kid, seeing the bright jackets excited me.