Quotes About Philly

In a lot of places Jay-Z is considered God, Philly, our hometown being one of them.

I come from a real working class background, and I didn't know anyone sophisticated - except I saw Edie Sedgewick once at the Art Museum in Philly. She had these black leotards and little black pumps and this big ermine cape and all these white dogs and black sunglasses and black eyes. She was classy!

The ability to work every day was a big part of L.A.'s effect on my process and the band coming out from Philly once a month.

John Kerry couldn't even order a Philly cheesesteak properly.

I usually muted him, but I still recognized his Philly accent, and the cocky attitude that seemed to come along with it.

Wrestling fans are usually pretty passionate, but Philly is one of the cities that takes that to a different level.

I used to live in Philly, so I was in Baltimore a lot wrestling before I got to WWE, wrestling for different promotions.

I like a lot of ratchet, trap music. Definitely 21 Savage. We need some music like that. ManMan Savage. A lot of the Atlanta scene. But Philly, too.

This whole 8 for $8 tour, I handpicked every city, every market on this tour, I handpicked myself. I wanted to go to New York, I wanted to go to Baltimore, I wanted to go to Philly, I wanted to go to Chicago, I wanted to go to Atlanta, of course I wanted to go Memphis, I wanted to go to Oakland.

As a youngster, I lived in Philly for 12 years, and I would go up to New York to do shows and make money - it was the dream to maybe be able to survive there and live there.

They started inviting me into the Messina Club at Tenth and Tasker, which is a members-only joint where you get the best sausage and peppers you ever ate. You'd play cards there; just hang out without the public citizens being at the next table. It's still there, and it still has the best sausage and peppers in all of South Philly. A

and Russell told me that he comes down to Philly a lot to pick up prosciutto bread. That's bread made with prosciutto and mozzarella baked in it. You

People know I'm Philly straight up and down.

I like New York. I like Philly. I like San Fran. I like when people are stoked. But Chicago's a real music town, and they're really good to us there. There's just something in the air there; people are just really stoked about music. Every time I go there, I have a great time, and the fandom is really heartwarming.

He had nothing against cops, per se—he had a cousin on the force in Philly, after all—but he never liked dealing with them directly

If you from Philly, you ain't a Villanova guy. Villanova is the suburbs. That's all you know about Villanova.

Once I came along, I started giving more smooth melodies, more songs for the ladies, a new vibe, and Philly wasn't used to all that.

Summertime where guys played pickup, we got a thing in Philly called Summertime Rec. In that summertime you can't duck no smoke. You can't duck nobody in that basketball vibes.