Quotes from Yo Gotti

When I'm driving, you have a different feeling when the police get behind you and you're not even breaking the law. The tension is so high.

Keeping my family out of prison best I can. That is success to me. I created that without selling records.

Back when I was growing up, I always had one foot in the street and one foot in music.

My key to surviving and winning is hustle. I think once you lose your hustle, you lost everything.

As a street hustler, you've got to be smarter than everybody. You have to outsmart the police, you have to outsmart the people in competition with you, you have to outsmart all the opposition.

It feels like one family - JAY-Z's one call away for any advice, any questions. He's a real big homie.

My personal career highlights would be getting my first No. 1 record, 'Down in the DM' and getting the second one now with 'Rake It Up.'

I grew up playing the games, man, back when it was just Nintendos and Sega Genesis.

I believe that if you got good people around you and they put in the work to help get you where you at, everybody should eat. No man should be depended on another man.

If you a rapper, attention can turn into money.

One of my homeboys from my neighborhood had actually taught me how to rap. He was the rapper and we would all go over to his house. It would be like 10 or 12 of us in there and he'd write everybody's rap in the house and would give everybody four or eight bars.

It's a difference between a good rapper and 'king of the city,' they're two different things. You can be a better rapper than me, that don't mean you're king of the city.

The fact is, I'm the biggest rapper from Memphis, I help a lot of rappers from Memphis.

Me as a person, man, I'm just rapping reality. Every time I get in front of the microphone I'm just speaking about real life and what's happening.

I would buy a house, and try to buy a house every month. I didn't have education or information about real estate at the time. I learned after I bought a few houses, and then I kind of fell in love with the rehabbing of the houses and fixing them up and just the whole process and turned it into a business.

The right watch is like real estate.

Real estate was one of the first things I was doing. I kinda like mistakenly fell into that. I bought a house early in my career, and in my head, it was like, if everything goes wrong, I own this one house, you know... As I started doing concerts and more concerts, I started buying more houses.

What scared me was my mother getting evicted from my house. Seeing them repo my momma's car once. Wondering if I didn't provide for her where she was going to be or if I didn't provide for her, where my sister was going to be. Those are the things that scared me.

I always understood the importance of relationships, respect, standing on your word and your name being good.

I like my jewelry to fit tight.

I recorded 'The Art of Hustle' album three times because I had the time to do it.

Some people take off recording cycles, but I record year round.

Boxing is a full-body workout, and while you're in it and learning the procedures and steps, you're working out at the same time. Sometimes it don't feel like you're actually working out, which I like.

Memphis breeds hustlers, I feel. It's just cutthroat living period, so to survive around vultures and savages like that, it prepares you for whatever profession you go in.