” When I came out rapping on my record, a lot of people said, Oh, you just want to be like Puff. “
” We’re just welcoming people to our city. “
” People know me, and want to know me, as a baller more than anything else. “
” People always ask me how long somebody can last as long as I’ve been lasting and continue to keep doing it, so I figured that people didn’t really know how to do that. “
” I’m one of those guys a lot of people watch, imitate, and then make it seem like they were the ones who did it first. “
” I’d go dance at talent shows, and because I was young I had the upper hand on a lot of other crews. People thought it was cute. I used that to my advantage. “
” I wanted to feel like an artist for once in my life. I wanted to use other producers for respect, to let them know that I listen to other people’s music and that I’m just not out here on my own page. “
” I go to clubs and if I notice the DJs are playing the records faster, then I’ll push the beats a little on the next record I make. A lot of people don’t know how to watch out for things like that. “
” Because I was in Atlanta, people didn’t realize I’m one of the real forefathers in the game. “
” You make a record like ‘Jump,’ people are stuck in that world. They want you to keep making records like ‘Jump.’ People don’t understand that you got to move on, you got to do something else. You have to evolve and go to something else. And most of the time, when it’s time for you to move, other people are not prepared for that move. “
” To be mentioned in the same breath as people I admire means everything to me. “
” Some people see Jermaine Dupri as a producer, and they don’t really know what the songwriting skills are. “
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