Top 100 Curtis Jackson Quotes
#1. I don't think it makes me a role model. I think it makes me inspiring. Cause I'm from the bottom I think they look at me and go 'well, if he made it, I can make it'
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#2. I'M PISSIN' ON GROWN WOMEN. R. KELLY DO IT TO CHILDREN.
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#3. Either you are a victim or you victimize someone and in the hood it's no holds barred. The kid in the schoolyard that doesn't want to fight always leaves with a black eye.
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#4. When Elvis was there, they were stopping everything. Elvis had the moment for real. While I'm here, its not all about 50 Cent, but it was all about Elvis.
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#5. You know how a person is made for something? Eminem is made for hip-hop. The best rapper is a white man.
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#7. Even the worst that happens to you can be converted into GOLD if you are clever enough.
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#8. If you were in a bad relationship and you meet someone new, you're going to leave with your luggage. The next person is going to have to endure things that someone else causes.
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#9. I'm really sensitive. And they don't understand that, because my most comfortable feeling is anger. So I'll get angry if you said something to hurt my feelings or you're making me uncomfortable, I'll get angry, and be ready to do something about it.
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#10. Actions may make you appear to be someone else, when people actually find out what you're doing.
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#11. I need you to pray for me; I need you to care for me. I need you to want me to win. I need to know where I'm heading, because I know where I've been.
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#12. When I fell in love with hip-hop, there was a terminology at the time called "battling." All that was just battling with other artists, but after Tupac and those incidents when it spilled into the street and turned into a negative situation, battling turned into a beef. A whole new dynamic.
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#13. Some people are born with very little; some are fortunate enough to have it all. When I grew up, we didn't have much. I had to hustle to get what I wanted ... but I had that hunger for more. I didn't always make the right choices, but I learned from my mistakes.
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#14. You can do all them push-ups to pump up your chest,
I got a 12 gauge Mossberg to pump up your chest,
Have you gasping for air after that shell hit your vest.
Fear me like you fear God, 'cause I bring death.
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#15. I was competitive in the ring and hip-hop is competitive too ... I think rappers condition themselves like boxers, so they all kind of feel like they're the champ.
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#16. I'll break your face, have your ass mumbling to the jay, you going against me dawg you makin a mistake. I'll split your wig and leave you open like a mickeal jackson jacket with all them zippers.
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#17. Puffy's contribution to hip-hop culture was the remix. He offered us the music that his mom played in front of him, with newer drums and younger artists. That worked, and will consistently be there. The remix comes right after the original record, that's something Puffy did to influence the culture.
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#18. I don't have a problem removing people from around me. They could be around for a long time, and I could get comfortable or used to them, and then I can just get rid of them.
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#19. You gotta be smart enough to pick up the information as you go.
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#20. The competitive nature of hip-hop culture has always had battling involved with it. So you battle with the other artist but not necessarily in business and everywhere else.
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#22. Every negative is a positive. The bad things that happen to me, I somehow make them good. That means you can't do anything to hurt me.
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#24. I've been in situations like in Tokyo where people sang my song word for word and then when the music stopped, they couldn't speak to me. I've seen the music break the language barrier.
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#25. When I have conversations with people, for some strange reason they think I'm gonna die and they're not. But you know what? Death means nothing to me.
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#28. I think it's easier for the general public to embrace me in a negative way. You have people who already have a perception of me that says I'm a bad person.
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#29. "Get Rich or Die Tryin". That's the universal struggle. When I say it it might seem a bit negative but if a working class person says it it means they're determined.
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#30. They don't understand the process I went through and how much I had to believe in myself ...
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#31. The only thing that I'm scared of is not livin' up to the expectations of Dr. Dre and Eminem.
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#32. Every day, families in Africa go without food and water, never knowing when their next meal might be; but we can change that if we all work together. In order to make a difference, every purchase of my new energy shot, Street King, will provide a meal for a child in need.
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#34. I need you. I need you to hate, so I can use you for your energy
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#35. People often say I have so much energy, that I never stop; but that's what it takes to accomplish your goals.
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#36. The opportunity and the concept of merging music culture with actual boxing is exciting. It's bringing a younger demographic to the sport.
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#37. Hate it or love it, the underdogs come out on top.
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#38. The importance of 'Dream School' is monumental. Helping to inspire these students to reach their potential is personally gratifying.
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#39. I never had working papers. I never had a job. I sold crack until I got in the music, so this is the best thing that happened to me and I do it excessively.
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#40. God's the seamtress that tailor-fitted my pain yo I got scriptures in my brain I can spit at yo dane straight the good book, look, niggas is shook 50 fear no man, warrior swing swords like conana
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#41. I had to overcome challenge after challenge in order to take my life from nothing to living my dreams.
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#42. People who actually have money don't want to talk about it. They want to talk about everything else.
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#43. I like generals. I like Napoleon. I like strategy. The majority of them are praised for mass destruction, but it's exciting to see how it comes to the mind mentally.
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#44. A thug is what I want and a thug is what I need. And my friends don't understand, and I think it's jealousy.
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#45. Every night I talk to God, but he don't say nothing back. I know he protecting me, but I still stay with my gat.
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#46. Because hip-hop has no requirements, you deal with people that have the least intelligence on the planet. Some of the people that compare themselves to me, compare themselves to me because they rap and I rap. They can't even read the contracts that they sign to be a rapper, to do the deal.
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#47. Stay to yourself, just listen. Do more listening than talking. The more you speak the higher the chances you sayin the wrong thing.
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#48. I think either you're creative or you're not. In general, I don't think you need to be in pain to actually be creative unless you're writing love songs. Then you might need to have some ups and downs within your emotions to start to capture that.
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#49. I'm the diamond in the dirt, that ain't been found. I'm the underground king and I ain't been crowned.
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#52. Negative energy that comes at you in some form is energy that can be turned around - to defeat an opponent and lift you up.
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#53. I am what I am; you can like it or love it. It feels good to blow fifty grand and think nothing of it.
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#54. When I'm actually creating music, I try not to listen to the hip-hop records that are going on, because I think, subconsciously, we steal from each other.
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#55. When you get in a point when you generate finances in a circle of people they gonna treat you different. They gonna treat you like as if you're gonna bring the money. You're the cash cow.
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#56. I have the opportunity to do something positive, I want to stay positive. It's hustling backwards in my eyes when I can earn money legitimately. This is what I want to do.
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#57. I done been to the pearly gates, they sent me back said the good die young I ain't eligible for that
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#58. I was surrounded by too many people who felt that they had a strong sense of entitlement. That I owed them something.
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#59. Obama is for same-sex marriage. If the president is saying that, then who am I to go the other way?
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#60. My description of fun would be to sit on someone's couch and watch TV. Regular cable TV. When I'm in a hotel, on-demand is the same. I watch the TV in another language, trying to figure out what they're saying.
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#61. Be prepared to do whatever you have to do. If you get put in a situation where your back is up against the wall let your gun go off.
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#62. Hate a liar more than I hate thief. A thief is only after my salary a liar is after my reality.
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#63. Concentrate on your money. Try to hold your paper. It takes money to make money, so save your money, opportunites come.
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#64. Jay-Z is as politically correct as some of the politicians. He's safe. There's points when you're acquiring financing, you make adjustments. He's made those adjustments. It's his choice. For me, it's not a necessity.
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#65. I'll have long, straight hair, like down to my back, when I go to Heaven. And I'm not even going to work out, but I'll be in shape. It's a whole new program up there.
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#66. I'm the type to swallow my blood before I swallow my pride.
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#67. I started boxing at 12, and I was above weight for my age, so they put me in the ring with adults ... When you're fighting all the time, it gives you the ability to fight without getting angry.
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#68. There had to be a better way - if I couldn't find it, I wanted to create it.
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#70. In Hollywood they say there's no business like show business. In the hood they say there's no business like ho' business.
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#71. I feel like you can will yourself into a good space. Things that are meant to happen, will. If you believe in yourself enough, you can help yourself learn. You can inspire yourself in ways to discipline yourself to a point where you CAN become good enough.
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#72. Just be confident. Confidence is the most attractive part of a person. Because if they're not confident enough to show you who they are, you don't even know who they are.
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#73. My grandmother, she's been the positive portion of my life the entire time.
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#74. If you consider yourself a part of the culture, then finances can't allow you to be bigger than the actual art form.
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#75. My past is my shadow, it follows me everywhere I go. Well, all those things come from when I had no other choice. They put my back against the wall. I do what I gotta do.
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#76. I don't display emotions. I have every feeling that everyone else has, but I've developed ways to suppress them. Anger is one of my most comfortable feelings.
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#77. If you start hustling then don't pay a person what they deserve, pay them what they accept. That's good business. Even if you're not hustlin' pay them what they accept because you can capitalize off of people.
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#78. Out of frustration, I say things. Now, people listen to me so much I can say it under my breath and everybody hears me ... I said in the past that I'm a work in progress, and I feel like I'm progressing.
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#79. I don't need to get any validation by someone else who sits next to me in first class. If you think a seat in first class makes you a star, then you're not one.
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#80. You learn a lot about yourself when you have success for a while. Like, a lot of things that you think are really important aren't. But you need that process.
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#81. Anybody who says that money don't change you - they only say that because they don't make enough.
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#82. There's a small group of guys in hip-hop that really have money. The whole culture talks about money, but it's a small group that actually has it.
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#83. I've got to make it to heaven; for going through hell.
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#84. If I don't make music I'm going back to the hood. I'll sell crack. I'm gonna go back to sell crack if I can't make it in the music business and that's what I was doing before that.
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#85. Most people can't handle boredom. That means they can't stay on one thing until they get good at it. And they wonder why they're unhappy.
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#86. My grandma pregnant again trying to talk her out of keeping it
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#87. If I wrote you a love letter, would you write back?
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#88. Just be confident. I think confidence is the most attractive part of a person.
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#89. It's not funny when you actually get shot, but afterwards, yeah, it's funny.
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#90. At first, my love was just to be in the studio and make the music and enjoy it when I hear it played back, but then the biggest thing for me was to see the response of the people. When you go out and see the energy in the crowd, it's incredible.
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#91. I like the story writing process. I usually use someone who has been trained for structure to take the story that I actually want, place those elements in the right places.
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#92. In business there's people who have talent and there's people whose talent is to take advantage of people who have talent.
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#93. A recession is predominantly for the middle class. Where I come from, the majority of people have always lived in a recession.
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#95. If you're not doin anything and you don't have goals and you got nothing to do then you might as well go jump off something, you just wasting the air.
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#96. The more my fans know about my past, the more they'll be able to predict and understand some of the moves I make in the future.
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#97. Beware of feedback from friends whose judgments could be tainted by feelings of envy or the need to flatter.
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#98. The new artist is meeting the general public before they meet the record company. They're able to put the material on YouTube and have a million views before they even meet an executive at a record company, and get the deal based on that.
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#99. I have received 16 Grammy nominations and I have no trophies, because I chose to write the harsh realities. I stayed true to myself and I've taken a little beating behind it.
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#100. Every morning I wake up in a home where Mike Tyson previously laid in the bed and he earned over $500 million his career. It makes me conscious.
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