Quotes from Jay Rock

I just fell in love with the music, man. The music just took control. It really saved my life.

A lot of people have been sending me beats, I've just been getting it in.

Hustle like you broke and keep that passion.

People like to come support when somebody's gone, people wanna show all the love, but they didn't wanna show the love when he was here.

My little bro Kendrick Lamar. I've been saying it for the times even when I was on Warner when everybody knew him as K-Dot. I used to tell people all the time, watch when K-Dot step out the box, he's going to be a problem.

I was on Warner Bros. for a minute.

I've got big homies that done been through the same thing I've been through and they made it out, changed their life and they come back and snatch young cats up and lecture them and let them know right way to do it.

My mom used to always read Bible scriptures to me and constantly say, 'Charity starts at home.' I always kept that in my mind and watched how it came to reality.

My mother is home. Your mother is your home. Everybody is a momma's boy or a momma's girl. That's where we came from, from a woman's womb.

People planted seeds into me. Older cats gave me the game. My family, especially my mother, gave me the game and I pass it on. That's what it's about. If somebody gives you mental jewelry and you wear it for so long, you want to give it to somebody else for them pass it on.

I been around negativity all my life. To do something positive, it's a beautiful thing.

I broke my leg and cracked my pelvis.

My craft's been rising. I'm a student of the game and I'm still growing.

A lot of rappers were influenced off the West Coast, even from the East.

Money can make or break you. It just depends on what you make it to be.

I've been working with a lot of different producers.

E-40 taught me a long time ago to try different things with my voice, experiment, and only roll with it if it feels right.

One thing I learned about Tech N9ne is just hard work. That dude don't sleep. I ain't ever seen this dude really sleep.

It's crazy how Tech N9ne was back home in L.A. He knew about my situation, what I was doing, trying to find other labels. He used to always call. 'Let me know what's up, man. We got room for you over here.' We appreciated it.

We just need more father figures and more older people to come and school these youth, because there will be a lost generation. And that's what a gang's supposed to be, protecting family and doing what you've got to do for your loved ones.

I done been to so many funerals.

Anything with music, you got to have inspiration. You got to have inspiration to do good music.

Just make good music.

My mother is home. Your mother is your home. Everybody is a momma's boy or a momma's girl. That's where we came from, from a woman's womb. She always gave me good advice because mothers know best at times. She gives me advice and I take it, run with it and share that with somebody else.