Quotes from Fabolous

I think the worst thing you could do is not shoot the shot. When you shoot you got two options: It can go in or you can miss, and even in the miss you might learn.

I remember so many times in the summer there was shootouts and things going on and it was just a part of it. It wasn't even like you regretted it; you still was looking forward to next summer. It was like oh damn, my man got killed but we gon' rep him and next summer we gonna ball again. It was just a part of the culture.

I got to go to Ghana, Africa and I got to go to the Dominican Republic. You know, just across the world and see their response to my music.

I used to to hustle growing up.

I remember one time 50 was offering me different things to come and be apart of G-Unit. I didn't really do it because it was kind of at the time where they were signing Mobb Deep, Ma$e and M.O.P. I didn't know if I wanted to be up under something.

When I first came in, family life wasn't at the forefront of your career or who you were as an artist. You was even supposed to be projected as a single man for the public.

Jay-Z has always been a huge figure in hip-hop.

People always ask me why I didn't join a crew or something like that. I don't know if that would have changed my legacy or if I would still be here today.

I'm very observant. So, my mentor is really basically a lot of people who are just around me and life itself. Just living and going different places and traveling.

A lot of sneaker brands come to me, not even just designers. They come to me with ideas trying to push different things, and I want it to be stuff that I feel is organic.

If you look at my closet, there's all kinds of shoes, but at the same time I don't want to spread myself thin as far as designs and collabs.

I think the comfort of sneakers is really coming back. Everybody wants a cool pair of shoes, but they want to be comfortable.

Michael Jordan broke the mold of the Magic Johnson/Larry Bird era - he came in and he had a gold chain, he wore longer shorts and his sneakers were a different style.

You gotta claim the crown and the people also gotta crown you, too. It's not just about somebody saying they king.

I think that's one thing that hinders hip-hop and I think when everybody tries to be the same... That's why people look at the 1990s almost like it was a golden era in hip-hop 'cause it was so much diversity in the music and in the artists. It wasn't everybody just trying to paint the same picture and say it with the same flow.

The thing about marriage is that I believe in it, but don't believe in it. I think sometimes people put that ring and that paper and it messes up a good thing.

I like to try new things as well as stay in my comfort zone so I think all the styles or looks I do, represent me.

The Mary J. Blige song is called 'My Life.' It's kinda like an autobiography song, stating what I'm about and what I'm trying to do and what I've done.

I like comfortable settings. Just somewhere where you can sit and chill and you got your friends and you got drinks and food.

I love collaborations because I love the mixture of the minds.

I noticed that what you're wearing is a representation of yourself and speaks for you before you do.

I think that's where the music business is where it is today because at one point, we were just splurging so much money and it was just extra. Everything was just extra and over did. Now, people are being as creative as they were but they're not spending $500,000 or a million on a video.

Twitter, I always say is the drunk uncle of my personality, because I say some stuff sometimes that, you know that drunk uncle at the Thanksgiving table, he starts rambling on about, that he shouldn't have said so sometimes I do that.

That's the kind of lane that I try to keep my fashion usually in - not too uppity, not too out of the norm, but little touches that make it special.