Top 77 Quotes & Sayings by Mannie Fresh
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Mannie Fresh.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
'Macbeth' is one of those books that demand all of your attention.
I can see how paperwork and foolishness can destroy something.
The cool thing about G.O.O.D. Music is it's a bunch of great ideas, and I'm one of those ideas.
'Chopper City in the Ghetto' - a lot of it was B.G.'s real story.
If you know Down South production, Roland 808 is in almost everything.
It's weird being a DJ and you have a playlist of your own songs that you could hold it down for an hour.
The streets buy records, but they don't really buy records in incredible numbers.
There will never be another Biggie ever again.
I've always had good connections with cars and always knew how to fix them, so I didn't have trouble with breakdowns.
I remember that my dad worked on cars from the '70s and '80s, and that's where my love came from: appreciating - even if it was a piece of crap - how much he loved American muscle.
I've always found some way to kind of incorporate second-line music in what I did.
For those from my era, my age, that 2Pac vs. Biggie war will go on forever about who is the greatest. But I was more of a Biggie dude.
What made '400 Degreez' great is that Juvenile already had those raps. He already knew them. It was something that he knew every one of those raps.
By the age of 17, Wayne was confident. He knew, 'This is what I am. I'm an MC.' You had Missy Elliott saying she loved Lil Wayne. Lyrically, he was getting better and better.
With a lot of young entrepreneurs, it always start rotten, but then something good happens - but do you keep it good?
When I know it's like a bass song, I gotta go with my SP-1200.
The whole '400 Degreez' album was inspired by what Outkast was doing, Organized Noize. That was what I was listening to around that time.
I think I have automobile skills and musical background.
We still have money issues. We will always have them as long as Cash Money is selling anything that has Mannie Fresh on it.
I don't bash Cash Money, Birdman, or none of them.
When a movie based on a book comes out, people always say that the book is always better than the movie. So I'm always interested in reading the book, too.
Just look at the name of Kanye's label: G.O.O.D. Music. That's what it's all about, creating good music.
B.I.G. was like the Alfred Hitchcock of rap. Like, this dude's story form was so nuts.
A lot of artists are scared when they see trumpet players show up - they like, 'Nah, that ain't what I want.' I try to tell them, 'Dude, I'll give you trademark Mannie Fresh, but it's not about keyboards and a drum machine.'
You had Cash Money: that was just the flashy dudes. Like I said, you had different genres of rap, and we were just one of them. So that's how we fit in. What makes it all confusing - and this is where it's the gift and the curse - we never set out for hip-hop to turn into just something flashy. That was just our thing. It wasn't everybody's thing.
I always felt like the trumpet or trombone player was always the coolest dude in the room.
I get most of my reading done whenever I'm in the airport waiting on a flight, have some time to kill, and I have a book with me.
I've got different drum machines that I use for different things, but I think the older ones are always the best when it comes down to getting that 808 bass.
When 'And Then What' was made, Jeezy already had a street appeal, but 'And Then What' put him on the national appeal.
Kanye inspires me through his work ethic and his approach.
Flow Tribe is a great bunch of New Orleans guys who have that funkiness to them.
Hey, you gotta love a gangsta girl. Even the suburban and preppy girls wanna be gangsta girls. That's the whole gimmick to it. Everybody wants to be a gangsta girl.
To have Run-DMC acknowledge you, something like that, you're like, 'Oh, I'm that dude.' To have Jay-Z do a verse, you that dude. To have Jay-Z shout you out in an intro, you're that dude. Like, it doesn't get any greater than that. Nobody can take that from you.
I did albums for Cash Money. I didn't do singles - I did whole albums for Cash Money - and at the end of the day, I'm saying I wasn't paid for albums, so its like you're doing 10 songs, and somebody pays you for 1.
That's what I'm tryin' to achieve. I want to be a heavyweight in this game, and I'm tryin' to get the big money. By the same token, the title 'Big Money Heavyweight' applies to everybody in the world. That's what everybody's tryin' to achieve.
To me, Def Jam put my career on hold. I was used to making 13-14 songs a year, and they trickled that down to nothing.
New Orleans just embraces people who love music.
When a lot of people are calling it a night at 2 A.M., New Orleans is coming alive.
Cash Money really had no intentions of being a rap label because when it started, it really was based on bounce. It was one bounce song after another. I started to doing bounce songs for them, and they jumped off.
All throughout Cash Money, I never abandoned the SP 1200. At the end of the day, I still use my SP 1200 'cause I like the way the drums sound.
The single 'Tha Block Is Hot' was a song that was true to life.
With Dr. Dre, he's a perfectionist. A lot of people ask why 'Detox' is taking so long. It's because Dre is somebody that is trying to top what he's done. Will he do it? I don't know if he ever will, but I respect that he's trying to do so. You have to wait for a masterpiece.
The name Hot Boys was based on a time in New Orleans where if you were really doing something or if the police were looking for you, people would be like, 'He hot. That boy hot.'
My dad is my biggest fan.
The reason that I like 'Game of Thrones' is because it's based on all these royal families. And it's cutthroat - just like hip-hop. It's all about positioning and figuring out who's going to last.
I'm saying nobody's got the guts to be a J. Cole. Nobody's got the guts to be a Kendrick Lamar. We need more of them... Everybody wants to go the easy route.
'Chopper City in the Ghetto,' real talk, it's what changed Cash Money from a Bounce label to a Rap label.
'Bling Bling' was originally a Big Tymers song.
'Solja Rag' was designed for Juvenile. It wasn't one of them beats where I was gonna chop it and see who I was going give it to: it was Juvenile all over it.
I'm too old to be making dis songs.
B.G. was just like his lyrics.
I always say that I'm a hip-hop fan, and I'm definitely a Drake fan.
We recorded 'Chopper City in the Ghetto' in a house that we was living in.
There's been enough building of fences with labels trying to categorize artists, limiting artists' ability to be themselves.
The thing about Big Tymers was if they said they had it, they had it.
With time, everything changes. I know I'm not the same person who I used to be. I totally get that.
I thank God I've never burned no bridges with nobody, and when it's time for me to call in my favors, they're coming.
The Cash Money sound pretty much changed the era. It kind of put the business into rap. It was like, 'Get your money, dude. This is a billion dollar business.'
Even before anybody liked the 808, Mannie Fresh was on the 808.
I have some songs on 'Tha Carter V,' but if I hear a song five times, I don't like it no more.
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