Quotes from Moneybagg Yo

Just don't let anyone judge you. Move at your own pace. Do things the way you want, and if people don't get it immediately, then make them understand.

I keep a note pad because, sometimes, my thoughts get jammed up, and this is the only way that I can just, I can put brakes on it and brace myself, and just really, I feel like it's better when I see it on paper.

When you're coming up and trying to be successful the foundation begins at home. You gotta take over the city first.

Gotti has taught me that I should chase my dreams, not the money.

Well, I ain't even gonna lie I used to wear fake jewelry when I was coming up, like trying to get on. But I just understood that you had to have that image as a rapper, as an artist, just to have the attention.

My brother, he love the diamonds, and he really got me into diamonds.

With the first 'Heartless,' I was just tryna get my feet wet in the game, and it was like, 'nobody wanna help me, nobody wanna show me love,' so I ain't feel the love, nowhere. That's what made me heartless.

Growing up I was listening to Puff and Biggie.

It didn't work but I always wish her the best. I'm really proud of her. Thee Megan I know and thee Megan ya'll know are two different things. It's still love, we just didn't see eye to eye.

When I first started rapping, I was just doing it for the hood to notice me - the hood fame - just to get people's attention around the city, to make me a little show money. But then music became my passion, it got real serious.

I got a studio built in my house, so I was recording there in Memphis and Atlanta. Those two environments give me that street feel.

When I was making Heartless, I was going through a real tough stuff stage in my career and life.

A lot of people think I'm cocky or arrogant but I'm really just chill and cool and humble.

I'm really so humble because I come from nothing.

You can hear the hunger in my voice on 'Federal 3x.'

I like trail mixes. It's just the whole pack, hot chips.

I keep growing my fan base. My last project 'Heartless' sold more mixtapes than some big artists on major label albums.

I'm working on this documentary. It's called 'Walking Home With Baby,' and when I say 'Walking Home With Baby,' it's a hood in Memphis. This is where I come from. This is my hood in Memphis - the South of Memphis.

I like to go back to Memphis, where I started it. I might sit in the hood for three days just putting myself back there.

Gotti my mentor. He like a big brother that helps manage my career.

When I go back home, I feel like Michael Jackson in Memphis. They love me.

Sometime when I'm on the road, if I hear an idea, a melody in my head on the iPhone we got the voice memos. So I just record the melody or sound or the whole idea for a record.

I listen to R&B when I ain't rapping. It's soothing, it relaxes my mind, it takes me to different places, and it just opens up my brain.

I got a movie I'm working on. 'A Gangsta's Pain' was actually supposed to be the soundtrack to the movie, but it got a little delayed, so the movie is going to come out after the fact.