Quotes from Mannie Fresh

You had Cash Money: that was just the flashy dudes. Like I said, you had different genres of rap, and we were just one of them. So that's how we fit in. What makes it all confusing - and this is where it's the gift and the curse - we never set out for hip-hop to turn into just something flashy. That was just our thing. It wasn't everybody's thing.

The Cash Money sound pretty much changed the era. It kind of put the business into rap. It was like, 'Get your money, dude. This is a billion dollar business.'

B.I.G. was like the Alfred Hitchcock of rap. Like, this dude's story form was so nuts.

'Chopper City in the Ghetto,' real talk, it's what changed Cash Money from a Bounce label to a Rap label.

When I know it's like a bass song, I gotta go with my SP-1200.

Don't just sit around and wait for it to happen. 'Get Your Roll On.' If you're going to buy some rims, graduate from college, or whatever, get your roll on and make something shake.

The cool thing about G.O.O.D. Music is it's a bunch of great ideas, and I'm one of those ideas.

I'm saying nobody's got the guts to be a J. Cole. Nobody's got the guts to be a Kendrick Lamar. We need more of them... Everybody wants to go the easy route.

Kanye inspires me through his work ethic and his approach.

We recorded 'Chopper City in the Ghetto' in a house that we was living in.

I love to have fun when I do a song.

I'm really working hard at regaining Mannie Fresh as a household name. But for me, it's always been the long road. What the long road means is if I gotta go city to city, town to town or whatever it is, that's what I gotta do.

That's what I'm tryin' to achieve. I want to be a heavyweight in this game, and I'm tryin' to get the big money. By the same token, the title 'Big Money Heavyweight' applies to everybody in the world. That's what everybody's tryin' to achieve.

I always say that I'm a hip-hop fan, and I'm definitely a Drake fan.

'Hood Rich' was super important to Cash Money.

I've always found some way to kind of incorporate second-line music in what I did.

I knew Kanye way before he was signed.

I did albums for Cash Money. I didn't do singles - I did whole albums for Cash Money - and at the end of the day, I'm saying I wasn't paid for albums, so its like you're doing 10 songs, and somebody pays you for 1.

If I was working on Michael Jackson if he came back to life, I would be ready. I would be ready. 'The Resurrection' Michael Jackson album, I would be ready.

To me, Def Jam put my career on hold. I was used to making 13-14 songs a year, and they trickled that down to nothing.

I'm doing bass trap; I'm doing EDM songs.

Flow Tribe is a great bunch of New Orleans guys who have that funkiness to them.

What made '400 Degreez' great is that Juvenile already had those raps. He already knew them. It was something that he knew every one of those raps.

Just look at the name of Kanye's label: G.O.O.D. Music. That's what it's all about, creating good music.