Quotes from Boosie

First 2Pac song I heard was 'Brenda Got a Baby.' That was the first one. I didn't even hear it. I saw the video.

As for the rap game, I feel like the music I got, the rap game wide open for me to take over.

A lot of people were trying to take my life as far as, you know, in the court system. And I was childish, man. I made songs about public officials and things like that. Those people don't forget that and I don't trust people like that.

I just make my Boosie music and that puts me in my own lane.

In Baton Rouge, blacks have always been looked at differently from other races, and the blacks who are fortunate, don't express themselves like I do.

I'm a better artist and I'm a better person because I'm wiser, and stronger and I know who's hip for me and who ain't.

Jail just made me wiser. It made me smarter. It made me wake up to a lot of stuff. And also it made me a better businessman. I had to learn the music business. It just made me a better person as far as the way I live.

What I go through in my life, I tend to put it in my music. I always say the things that hurt me the most and that matter to me the most. I can't hold it in, man. It's like therapy.

I don't make one hit wonders.

I like to put people on my record who will fit in with me. I like thug girls like Trina who look good and talk nasty.

Once you learn from your mistakes and you tighten up your hustle and you know your business, you get rich. That's basically true with anything.

Listen to realness in my music before you judge me.

I run a whole record label, I'm a whole entrepreneur.

I'm tired of Nick Saban. I used to love Nick Saban. I don't know what he does on the recruiting side - he's the truth.

The music is the easy part. The business is the hard part.

I don't even have to drop an album and I pack out shows. That goes with timeless music.

Ain't nobody gon' tell me how to raise mine. I'm a fight to keep a traditional household. That's just me.

I don't hold my tongue for nobody.

That's what I do good. I touch people.

What 2Pac did to me is he touched me with his music.

Get Ya Mind Right,' when you play that it's a club banger.

I always had problems with making singles because I'm not a singles type of guy. I never needed radio to blow me up. I'm a street legend.

Drake come out there and he play his music and everybody just go crazy. Michael Jackson come out there and breathe.

When you go to jail you know who real and who ain't.