Top 100 Curtis Jackson Quotes
#1. What's more they are also some of the best-paid entertainers in history: Curtis Jackson, aka 50 Cent, raked in U.S. $150 million in 2008 alone, placing him on top of Forbes's "Hip-Hop Cash Kings" list.
Peter Mcallister
#2. Curtis Curtis jackson..he's the fakest thug I ever did see
Fat Joe
#3. 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.
Curtis Jackson
#4. The only thing that I'm scared of is not livin' up to the expectations of Dr. Dre and Eminem.
Curtis Jackson
#5. My grandparents went through a bad experience themselves; they invested money in a church and got burned - the pastor had his own agenda - and my grandfather lost interest in the church after that. That was when I had the option to not go. 'Grandpa ain't going; I'm gonna stay with Grandpa.'
Curtis Jackson
#6. I'm not trying to save the world. As a musician and artist, it just ain't me.
Curtis Jackson
#7. The State of New York City says in defense you can use as much force as you feel like the person that is coming for you with. So if I'm wrong than the law is wrong. That's really the way I felt.
Curtis Jackson
#8. 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.
Curtis Jackson
#9. What I do is take the jewelry back to the jeweler and they redo the jewelry with the same gold from the last thing.
Curtis Jackson
#10. Money definitely changes your lifestyle. But the things you go through makes who you are. Your experiences, they travel with you.
Curtis Jackson
#11. I think Sean Parker damaged the music business with Napster.
Curtis Jackson
#12. 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.
Curtis Jackson
#13. People who actually have money don't want to talk about it. They want to talk about everything else.
Curtis Jackson
#14. I had to overcome challenge after challenge in order to take my life from nothing to living my dreams.
Curtis Jackson
#15. 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
Curtis Jackson
#16. 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.
Curtis Jackson
#17. When a person completely has nothing but negative interest in you and would like nothing more than to see you in the worst situation possible, then why would you consistently go toward that energy?
Curtis Jackson
#18. If you a man and your over 25 and you don't eat pu**y just kill your self damn it. The world will be a better place. Lol,
Curtis Jackson
#19. Chris Lighty was a huge portion of my actual career. It's difficult to adjust to not have someone around that's in your life, in your life.
Curtis Jackson
#20. The importance of 'Dream School' is monumental. Helping to inspire these students to reach their potential is personally gratifying.
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#21. Hate it or love it, the underdogs come out on top.
Curtis Jackson
#22. The opportunity and the concept of merging music culture with actual boxing is exciting. It's bringing a younger demographic to the sport.
Curtis Jackson
#23. People often say I have so much energy, that I never stop; but that's what it takes to accomplish your goals.
Curtis Jackson
#24. I need you. I need you to hate, so I can use you for your energy
Curtis Jackson
#26. 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.
Curtis Jackson
#27. 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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#30. True hustlers are prepared to get hustled and know when to change positions and move to something different and aren't afraid.
Curtis Jackson
#31. You have to challenge yourself and your muscles. When you are really regimented, it's the same over and over and you start to get comfortable. Switching up the style of training works your muscles differently.
Curtis Jackson
#32. I am what I am; you can like it or love it. It feels good to blow fifty grand and think nothing of it.
Curtis Jackson
#33. I'm still waiting for Peter Jackson to let me play an elf. I want to play Orlando Bloom's father. No, Orlando Bloom's younger, hotter brother. I don't think it's going to happen.
Cliff Curtis
#34. Even the toughest guys are afraid to be anything outside of the toughest guys.
Curtis Jackson
#35. I'm not a gangster, I'm not a thug.. I'm just me and if I feel like someone is trying to hurt me.. yeah I'm gonna hurt 'em.. if you come and you ain't coming right I'm gonna blow your head off.
Curtis Jackson
#36. Sleep is for those people who are broke. I don't sleep. I've got an opportunity to make a dream become a reality.
Curtis Jackson
#37. I like to sort through music and see whatever pops out to me or inspires me. If I could have a production team going and kind of mix records with me, that would be cool; to take the records and have them sound the way I want them to sound. But I'd rather sort though music to find them things.
Curtis Jackson
#38. Negative energy that comes at you in some form is energy that can be turned around - to defeat an opponent and lift you up.
Curtis Jackson
#40. 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.
Curtis Jackson
#41. When I put out my first mixtape, '50 Cent is the Future,' it was the first tape where an artist did the entire tape in song format.
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#42. I make music cuz it's almost like I can escape everything I was involved in. All I gotta do is make music. I don't do nothin but make music.
Curtis Jackson
#43. I'm the diamond in the dirt, that ain't been found. I'm the underground king and I ain't been crowned.
Curtis Jackson
#45. 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.
Curtis Jackson
#47. Stay to yourself, just listen. Do more listening than talking. The more you speak the higher the chances you sayin the wrong thing.
Curtis Jackson
#48. When you've been in life-threatening situations, you become aware that life is not for ever.
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#50. If you're familiar with my man Uncle Sam, you understand the only way you can actually feel better about what he's gonna take, come the end of the year, is lifestyle. Only thing you can do is spend some of it.
Curtis Jackson
#51. Since I did the SK Project and I partner with the United Nations World Food Program, I got a lot of different feedback from people online. Through social networks and through the Twitter. I read the comments and see 'em saying, 'People hungry here, Fif.'
Curtis Jackson
#52. Even the worst that happens to you can be converted into GOLD if you are clever enough.
Curtis Jackson
#53. 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.
Curtis Jackson
#54. 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.
Curtis Jackson
#55. You grimy as birds shittin' on the top of ya Fords.
Curtis Jackson
#57. I think I'll be going to Heaven, because I had good intentions. But my actions are another thing.
Curtis Jackson
#58. 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.
Curtis Jackson
#59. 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.
Curtis Jackson
#60. In my neighborhood ... they view the police as someone who comes to take their loved ones away.
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#61. Actions may make you appear to be someone else, when people actually find out what you're doing.
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#62. 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.
Curtis Jackson
#63. If you are ambitious, you are running in a tunnel that never ends. You will always find something new to go after. [ ... ] I got high for the first time with Get Rich or Die Tryin' and I have been trying to achieve that feeling again since then, all the time.
Curtis Jackson
#64. 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.
Curtis Jackson
#65. 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.
Curtis Jackson
#67. You know how a person is made for something? Eminem is made for hip-hop. The best rapper is a white man.
Curtis Jackson
#68. 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.
Curtis Jackson
#69. 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.
Curtis Jackson
#70. I'M PISSIN' ON GROWN WOMEN. R. KELLY DO IT TO CHILDREN.
Curtis Jackson
#71. Without music I wouldn't have the ability to be in business. The opportunity to be in business came with the finances from music and the notoriety that comes with being successful as an artist. So I see myself as an artist first, but I'm absolutely conscious of business.
Curtis Jackson
#72. Get into the music business. This is the business that you have absolutely no requirements. You listen to music, you need no college degree.
Curtis Jackson
#73. If you don't have finances to jump on opportunites or at least room to support yourself while you're tryin to move into new situations then you can't even evolve.
Curtis Jackson
#74. I started hustling at 12, my mother hustled ahead of me. I was only allowed to because they knew me.
Curtis Jackson
#75. 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'
Curtis Jackson
#76. You belong to me. We are not in a temporary relationship or whatever fucked up nonsense you want to call it. We are real, and you are mine. You became mine the first time I held you in my arms, and I swore to myself, I would protect you always." - Jackson Cole
Sarah Curtis
#78. They don't understand the process I went through and how much I had to believe in myself ...
Curtis Jackson
#79. "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.
Curtis Jackson
#80. Everyone else is just mad cause i came from the bottom with out them
Curtis Jackson
#81. It's difficult for me to trust a woman. Men are attracted to beautiful women. Women are attracted to men who offer security - financial security. And if you have money and you're famous, women find that sexy.
Curtis Jackson
#82. 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.
Curtis Jackson
#83. When I wasn't killing time in school, I was sparring in the gym or selling crack on the strip.
Curtis Jackson
#86. 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.
Curtis Jackson
#87. 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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#88. People are like plants: They grow; they change every day.
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#89. 50 Cent is a metaphor for "change". But originally it was a gangster from Fort Greene Projects named 50 Cent and I took the name when he passed and because he's not active, I thought it'd be cool to take it.
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#90. 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.
Curtis Jackson
#92. Real man is someone who handles his responsibilities. Take care of all of his responsibilities. No matter how, by any means take care of your situations.
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#93. 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.
Curtis Jackson
#94. I think Frank Ocean is a talented artist; I think he's created material that made me know his name, that impressed me, with things he said on a song like 'Novacane.'
Curtis Jackson
#95. You gotta be smart enough to pick up the information as you go.
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#96. I just feel really good about my accomplishments. I haven't had, like, a party because a deal goes through or something like that. I don't know. I need to develop that - I need to have something that I do when things go right.
Curtis Jackson
#97. 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.
Curtis Jackson
#98. 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.
Curtis Jackson
#99. What I want to be is the best bad guy you've ever seen.
Curtis Jackson
#100. 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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