Top 107 Quotes & Sayings by Paul Wall

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Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Paul Michael Slayton, better known by his stage name Paul Wall, is an American rapper and DJ. He has spent much of his career affiliated with Swishahouse Records, and has released several albums under the label and collaborated with numerous other rappers signed to the label. He began his career performing alongside fellow Houston artist Chamillionaire, with whom he released several albums, including 2002's independently released Get Ya Mind Correct. In 2005, he was signed to Atlantic Records and became successful with his major label debut The Peoples Champ, which was followed up by Get Money, Stay True followed in 2007. He has been nominated for one Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance as a Duo or Group for the song "Grillz", his collaboration with rapper Nelly.

American - Rapper | Born: March 11, 1981

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I just want to be an artist. I like making music. I don't want to be the one tryin' to figure out how we're going to market the album.

Paul Wall

Sometimes you're with a producer who just makes beats and you can kinda do your thing to whatever beats they come up with. But sometimes you get with a producer who really produces you and the music together, not just the beat then you can kinda throw in your ideas and vibe off each other.

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I was Overflow. Another one I had was the Caped Crusader. Chamillionaire was Payroll. That was our group back then, Payroll and the Caped Crusader. We grew up on the same street so we lived a few houses down from each other. So we knew each other pretty much all our life.

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Whenever you ain't afraid to grind and ain't afraid to put in that work, that's a hustle, man.

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When my mom grew up, her father was in the military so she grew up all over the world. She lived in Germany, Jerusalem, Switzerland, all over.

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Anytime you get tattoos, you can't go wrong with 2Pac quotes.

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Gold teeth was just something that was popular down in Texas and around the country for a while. Growing up, it was something that you would do. You get a gold chain or watch, or grill, it was a status symbol. Like a trophy: I made it, or I made some money.

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Me and Ron C, I was cool with a lot of his family. We went to church together and one of his cousins, B Sight, that was my boy. We had a couple jobs together matter fact, we used to get down, he gave me the nickname Paul Wall. For some reason he just always called me that.

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A lot of the jewelers - not that they're not good people - but they're hustlers.

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When I was 12 years old, I met Bushwick Bill at the Houston Airport. He was by himself and with a whole, big ole thing of luggage - about 10 people worth of luggage. He was just sitting there by himself, asleep, knocked out at about noon or one in the afternoon. Me not knowing no better, I walk up to him, wake him up like, 'Man, you Bushwick Bill?'

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There's health risks in anything, even if you're just drinking soda or drinking lemonade! If you drink too much lemonade you drink too much sugar and you could get diabetes.

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Swishahouse, it started off as just a crew making mixtapes and that's when I got down with it back in like 1998. It wasn't a record label at first. It was all just for promotion, for fun, and we just had a crew representin' for our hood.

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On every verse I do, I'm going to try to improve myself in some type of way.

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When the work stops the success stops.

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You want to be able to trust somebody's word.

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Now that I got a son, it encourages me to work even harder.

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Family means the most to me. To me, that's the life I chose, that's the life I wanted, that's the life I dreamed of. Of course, I want cars, jewelry, a nice house and all those type of things, but the key values to me, is growing and being in a partnership, a family.

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If I'm feeling down, I'll fake smile. I'm trying to trick my brain into being happy. It might work one out of 50 times, but I'm getting there.

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I think bad breath is... just hard to get past. Someone with just horrible breath, yeah. I'm not talking about just onion breath. I'm talking about you been brushing your teeth and using the mouthwash and it still smells like you've been tongue-kissing the toes of a gorilla - that's horrible.

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I'd be on the airplane and have to ask for seatbelt extensions.

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I definitely try to draw from the positivity.

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My wife's a real big country fan. One time, we were driving back and forth from L.A. to Houston, and we wrote a country song together.

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I was morbidly obese, 120 pounds overweight. It was just embarrassing. I'd be on stage feeling like I was about to collapse. I'd get dizzy spells.

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Whether it's in the streets or its a nine-to-five, you can be hustling in many different aspects.

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The surgery I got is called gastric sleeve.

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I get distracted easily.

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Shout out to the greatest of all time, Eminem. Definitely appreciate the love... He gave me a few over the years.

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To me, one of the greatest albums I ever put out was the album I did with Statik Selektah.

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I just try to live my life as who I am.

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All my friends are fat.

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Helping teach my son right from wrong, what to do and how to be a man, just about life in general, same thing with my daughter, it's just very important to me.

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I went to Kuwait, Baghdad, you know all through Iraq. I went to Qatar, Afghanistan.

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I really didn't think it was possible because there was really no one from my neighborhood that I knew or saw that made it successfully as a professional rapper. So it was like, OK, I don't know if its even possible.'

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I don't think being white defines who I am.

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Hot Boyz always shouted out a lot of things relevant to Texas so I connected with it. They were our neighbors and growing up we went to Louisiana every year for Mardi Gras, Bayou Classic and the Essence festival, so we grew up taking trips to Lafayette and New Orleans. Those were three annual trips.

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I used to have this jersey, it was a Kenyon Martin jersey, with a little grease stain on it, I didn't think anyone else could see it. I looked down to my jersey and I was like, 'OK, I'm good.' Next thing I know I'm seeing all these pictures of myself with a big ol' grease stain.

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I do my music for the people, for the fan base, you know they're the one's that keep me going and keep me motivated with it.

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You know, coming from a broken dysfunctional family, you know, it's something that I always aspired to be - a good husband and a good father.

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I had always told my people, 'If you set me up to get 'Punk'd,' I ain't never speaking to you again, because you aren't going to have me looking like no fool on TV.'

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I never felt like I had a lack of talent.

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I love to watch baseball in Fenway Park. They have an awesome energy there.

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I'd like to team up with somebody like Willie Nelson or Ray Benson.

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I've never really broken up with somebody before. I've been broken up with.

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You can look in the mirror and try to hide it and cover it up, and it may work here or there, but there ain't no shirt or hat you can put on or haircut you can get to hide the fact that you're morbidly obese.

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Don't be so quick to turn your back on people who are fighting things. You need to be there for them.

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There's a lot of culture vultures out there taking our culture down here in Texas.

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We sell a lot of jewelry, not just the grills. We got a whole line of watches, me and my boy Johnny Dane.

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I've always tried to find a silver lining. I've always been a glass is half-full kind of person.

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I try to keep an open mind - not knowing it all.

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I want to be here for my kids. I don't want to have a heart attack.

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Ninety percent grind, 10 percent sleep. That's our motto.

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I always felt like I could hold my own with anybody, period. And I always have strived to do my best.

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I kinda washed my hands of him. I'm not worried about Mike Jones. I don't wish no bad on him and I don't hate him, but I've got to move in my own direction.

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I was hustling out of shops kind of doing, selling music out of my trunk, selling grills out of my trunk, too. And then I teamed up with Johnny Dang, he was the local, the grill man who made them for the dentist.

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I always knew that if I built my name up as an entity, that would be bigger than me just rappin'.

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People always tell me I'm an anomaly or an outlier. I'm just me.

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You can spend $200 or $50 for tennis shoes - it's about what you can afford.

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I'm gonna rap the same whether I'm white, black, or Hispanic, I'm still gonna be me.

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I've always been adventurous - my wife calls me 'the Hip Hop Crocodile Hunter' - if you can survive in the hood, you can survive anywhere.

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To be able to do a song with Kanye West and then a video with Hype Williams who directed the video, that's a highlight of any artist's' career.