Quotes from Young Jeezy

Sam Jackson is like the Jeezy of Hollywood: He's for his people.

John McCain... looks like a fraud to me.

Anybody that's got a problem with me is probably envious or wants to be me, and that's how I've always looked at it.

This rap game is just WWF; everybody wants points off somebody else.

I always try to go back and check my old stuff. It's like watching the tapes of the game. You want to go back and go as hard as before.

I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.

I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.

As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.

I'm a motivational speaker.

In middle school, I had an '87 Regal. That was unheard of.

I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.

I created my lane. No one can ever run my lane because it's mine. I'm the Michael Jackson of my lane. And you know, nobody was as great as Michael. I love Prince, but he's not Michael.

Anybody that I ever dealt with knows that I'm a very focused individual, and when it comes to my work and what I do, you might have to play the back burner to that.

People who work every day are kind of scared of things they don't understand.

I just think a hustler's ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I'll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my heroes were hustlers. Now I'm their hero.

My hustle is nonstop. I never stop hustling.

When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain't to be played with. You've got people that lost their lives and people that are doing real time. If we gon' make music, let's just make music.

I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.

Honestly, I'm on the road so much that I never really get a chance to go to baseball games.

It's not the average people that come to my show.

I, and others like me - trap stars - we always considered ourselves Robin Hoods: we go out and get the money. Just think, if you was in the village and you a hunter, you take pride in going out to hunt the prey and bring it back for the village to eat. In our situation, we took pride in getting money so that the hood could eat.

A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.

My fans are my family, because they understand me and I understand them.

With rap, it's a funny thing. You can say things, and people can take 'em the way they wanna take 'em.