Top 122 Quotes & Sayings by Prodigy - Page 2

Actually doing a song, going to the studio, and just getting out on paper your anger makes you feel a little better sometimes.

You can never go back to a time and try to recreate that sound, because that time is done.

I been going to the hospital since I was born, about 10 times a year, for about a week or two each time.

I'm a creative person, and I'm gonna be creative, so whoever's upset because of that, that's too bad.

Hip-hop music was our life.

Going to prison actually helped save my life, I believe.

Going to jail is beyond what anyone thinks it is.

I'm not scared to speak my mind and tell you what it is.

It took me a while to like Wu-Tang's style.

To me, I got a bunch of haters. Mobb Deep - and Prodigy, speaking for myself - I got a bunch of haters.

My kids know they can't make the same mistakes I've made. They've been through a lot with me always being on the road.

I don't like new people coming around me. I'm going to really be leery and watch you and take my time before I embrace you.

Premier was one of the first producers that we reached out to, and he was like, 'Hell yeah! Let's get to work.' He was showing us love and giving young, new artists a chance.

I was real serious when it came to rapping. I still do, but even more so when I was real young.

Jive is a good label, but they're R&B'ed out.

Our first name was the Poetical Prophets before we changed it to Mobb Deep, and when I look back on it now, that was, like, a ill name for us because that is what we really were.

We used to cut out of school and go to Coney Island to record songs almost every day.

When I first went in, I realized there's no green vegetables. They serve, like, spinach once every two weeks. The three meals they serve inmates every day is like slop.

Premier came into the picture when were starting to make our own beats and all that.

The aggressiveness of it attracted me to hip-hop because I was angry inside. I was an angry kid because of the sickle cell. So I liked the anger in hip-hop. That's what attracted me to it; that's what made me want to do it. It helped me get my aggression out.

Hip-hop basically controls the world through fashion, through music, through language, through culture. It's basically running the world, no matter what anyone wants to think, and that's just the way it is.

We'll never change the fact that we are hardcore hip-hop and we make rebellious hip-hop music, and we're going to keep doing that and progress with our production, progress with our lyrical styles, be creative, and just have fun with it.

The music is just real powerful when Mobb Deep and Nas work together.

Sickle cell was my life before hip-hop. I ain't really have no life - that was it.

Mobb Deep is a street-rap group. We from off the streets.

I make all types of music. People wanna put me in a little box, and they get mad when I don't stay in there.

I love New York. It 'as made me who I am, know what I mean?

The sickle-cell got me where doctors said I couldn't play sports, I couldn't overexert myself.

I've learned to respect Rick Ross' music.

I read certain things about history. I don't like fiction. I read about stuff that's real, stuff that's goin' on in the world.

Anything that Havoc or I do is always going to point back to Mobb Deep.

We gotta keep our sound alive, that dark hip-hop.

From the neighborhoods that we grew up in, we had to learn how to deal with people. How to keep certain people at a distance, how to cut people off completely.

That's probably the key to our success and our longevity, sticking to our formula and what we do best, the hardcore Mobb Deep sound, rather than chasing trains. But we're always experimenting with the art and the creativity of hip-hop.

I'm a fan of hip-hop. I'm a fan of rap, so anything new that's happening, I'm hip to it.

Nas is like King Queensbridge: he's the man out there.

I always make hardcore songs, hits for the block.

As you get older, everybody changes. You don't do the stupid stuff that you used to.

You got to treat Mobb Deep different because our fan base is different. Our fan base is in the 'hood across the world.

If you look at my rap sheet, it's very long.

The sunset looks beautiful over the projects... What a shame, it ain't the same where we stand at. If you look close, you can see the bricks chipped off. Sometimes niggas miss when they lick off.

Your crew is featherweight, my gunshots will make you levitate

Growing up I couldn't always get involved with the activities with all the other kids because if I overworked my body it would trigger my pain. There were definitely times growing up, where other kids wanted to challenge me; they wanted to see if they could push my buttons and see if I could fight or what have you. Taking my kindness for weakness or taking my quietness and laid-back style for weakness. I've been dealing with that for basically all my life.

I was heading in a self destructive direction. My priority wasn't together, wasn't in order. So me getting locked up was actually a blessing for me. It helped for me to see the light. Once you get the rug snatched from under you - I had my career and family snatched from me, and I was forced to just sit there in that box for three years and think about what I did and how selfish I was, it made me really see things with new eyes, like, hold up, why was I doing that? What the hell was I thinking about? I gotta change. Something's got to give. I can't ever come back in this place again.

Your simple words just don't move me... You're minor, we major. You all up in the game and don't deserve to be a player.

I'm only 19 but my mind is older... When things get for real, my warm heart turns cold.

Take these words home and think it through; Or the next rhyme I write might be about you.

When the slugs penetrate, you feel a burning sensation, Gettin closer to God in a tight situation.

There's a war going on outside no man is safe from. You can run but you can't hide forever.

I was always real back and forth about the whole religion and God. That comes from me just dealing with that pain when I was younger, and just growing up, living that particular street lifestyle. It brought my relationship with God into question many times. I wanted to repair that and fix that, and that's what I went in and did. I did all of that. I wrote many albums and all that kind of stuff, but the most important part was fixing my mind, body, and soul; getting it together, really getting it together where I could have a future, and a successful future.

Every day I wake up like, "This might be my last day, and I'm not scared of it. I'm gonna go out there, do what I gotta do; I ain't gonna let nothing stop me." Nothing puts any fear in my heart. I'm never scared to bite my tongue about something, or never be scared to come out and speak about something - that's what I mean. Like, I ain't scared of death. What you gonna do to me?

These ante meridiem cats, insomniacs... Four in the mornin' we throwin back some Cognac juice.

There's a secret government out here. It's been functioning since the beginning of time, and their whole job is population control. A lot of it is racist, so their target black people and minorities. People need to watch out for that, pay attention to how they're tryin' to change laws, and they're tryin' to control the world. They don't want just America or Europe any more; they want the entire globe.

Havin' cash is highly addictive, especially when you're used to havin' money to live with.

I got lots of love for my crew, that is; No love for them other crews and rival kids. All them out-of-town niggas know what time it is, And if they don't? They need to buy a watch, word up.

Life is a gamble, we scramble for money, I might crack a smile, but ain't a damn thing funny.

For all of those who wanna profile and pose Rock you in your face, stab your brain with your nose bone.

Sickle cell anemia made me a real angry kid. I was angry at God. I used to sit there and pray to God, please, take this pain away. It was nothing magical happening, there was nothing there. I felt like my prayers were not being answered. It made me real moody, I had an attitude problem growing up as a young child.

The problem is not gun possession; the problem is manufacturing guns - who's making these guns and how they gettin' out on the street? There shouldn't even be guns for us to possess. If there wasn't any, then it wouldn't be a problem. So we need to go to the source of the problem. They're making all these wars so they can make more weapons and sell them, and they wanna kill more people - they need population control,'cause people have to die in order for this world to continue. That's the government's goal right now.

Every time the ball drop on New Year's Eve, We toast to more money, we smoke to more cheese.