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I tell people I live in Atlanta. Georgia's outside of Atlanta, absolutely. But my family's from the very rural south. My family's from Tuskegee, Alabama. And they're from Eatonton, Georgia. Places like Greenwood, Georgia, my family is from... so I've seen it both ways.

I've been a music fan all my life, and you know the difference when the musicians care.

I've been watching wrestling since I was three years old.

I don't let people talk bad about Rick Ross around me. Like, you can't do it. He owns - I've heard a legend - 30 Wing Stops in the areas he grew up near. You can never say anything about him. If that represents ten jobs per place, that's 310 jobs provided.

I shouldn't have to be preparing my children that the world is going to be unfair to them for the rest of their lives.

A lot of times, elections are lost, and the hope of the public is lost because they don't turn out.

I used to have go-karts and mopeds and motorcycles when I was a kid. Then my grandpa let me drive a real car at about 13 or 14 and I just... I never cared about bikes again after that.

For me, muscle cars are a tribute to American ingenuity.

A lot of times, our greatest minds are locked into a 9-5 job.

The fact that I'm in a group that inspires others artists is just heaven to me.

An army took on the Union; an army lost. That nation, the Confederate States, lost. And if - that flag - in terms of publicly or state-sponsored things, or local or county or city-sponsored things - should be forever wiped from the memory, because that side lost.

My mom had did a wonderful job of giving me two great dads: I had a biological and non-biological dad.

A lot of time, when you're poor and you ain't got but 15, 20 bucks in your pocket - if you can't change your shoes, you can change your look with a haircut.

You a role model by way of someone will model after your role. They'll model themselves after what they perceive is success. That doesn't mean they take your morality and virtue seriously. They want what you want, and they're willing to do what you do to get it.

I'm a man's man.

My hair is dry. A lot of shampoos and greasers don't work with me, and so I started playing around with a chemist on a product that'll work with me.

In my 20s, I was just angry.

I just like cars, period. I can find something to like about pretty much any car. I've had as much fun whipping around Italy in a little Mini Cooper as I've had whipping through Miami in a Bentley GT.

I was raised a black child in the South, where you're indoctrinated into a religion that an oppressor gave you.

Rap, to me, is communal. It's something you do with your friends. So becoming a member of a group was the dream.

If we could figure out ways for kids to exit college without having the burden of debt, what we have really figured out is how to create a more fertile breeding ground for people who can think innovatively and progress us as a species.