Top 118 Quotes & Sayings by Yo Gotti
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Last updated on November 23, 2024.
I'm just a go-getter. I tell people all the time - I feel like I'm supposed to be successful, no matter what I'm doing.
It's a difference between a good rapper and 'king of the city,' they're two different things. You can be a better rapper than me, that don't mean you're king of the city.
I don't do credit cards 'cause my mama told me back in the day she never dated a man who tows a wallet. 'Cause that mean he ain't have enough money.
My cheat meal is whatever I think about. One thing about me is whatever comes to my mind, if I want it, I'm going to eat it.
Trap music to me isn't just a sound. If we're talking about what I think trap music is, I couldn't say that I created it or no one created it, because if you were living the same life that I was living and you're speaking about it, we just speaking about our endeavors in that world.
My key to surviving and winning is hustle. I think once you lose your hustle, you lost everything.
Yeah, I actually went to college. I went to Southwest Community College in Memphis; I tried to go to TSU, and they denied me.
When I was young I was getting more money than the old heads. I was smarter and tighter, so whoever's team I was on was at an advantage.
I'm a songwriter, actually. And when I say I'm a songwriter, I'm saying I can write songs for more than just myself.
The 'Down in the DM' to 'Rake It Up' to videos, the artwork... everything is 100 percent me. If you want to sample it, if it's going to be in a movie, whatever, you gotta call me.
When I'm driving, you have a different feeling when the police get behind you and you're not even breaking the law. The tension is so high.
Probably more than half my life, I've thought from a trap mindset, a hood mind frame in the way I was moving.
It feels like one family - JAY-Z's one call away for any advice, any questions. He's a real big homie.
I believe that if you got good people around you and they put in the work to help get you where you at, everybody should eat. No man should be depended on another man.
My personal career highlights would be getting my first No. 1 record, 'Down in the DM' and getting the second one now with 'Rake It Up.'
I feel like I grow in a different space every year, some kind of way.
After being in the game so long, making so much money and achieving different things, now I think a lot more about impact.
Ain't no off days. I don't take off on no businesses I do. So I'm in the studio all the time, with so many records, and I guess it's a good problem when it come down to it.
A lot of my music be personal.
If you're misleading the little homies, you ain't no real big homie to me.
Yeah, I've never been afraid to put my own money up on what I wanted and what I believed in or who I believed in.
One of my homeboys from my neighborhood had actually taught me how to rap. He was the rapper and we would all go over to his house. It would be like 10 or 12 of us in there and he'd write everybody's rap in the house and would give everybody four or eight bars.
I always understood the importance of relationships, respect, standing on your word and your name being good.
You're only as good as your team, so if your team's strong around you, it just puts you in a greater position.
I think 42 Dugg is a superstar - he's got the voice, the music, the look and the hustle.
Some people just like to do their own thing. I ain't sayin' it's wrong, but me, I wanna hustle with another hustler. I think two impactful hustlers, or three, or four, is a stronger force.
I love to learn, I love to be educated on different levels.
PUMA has been an iconic name in the fashion world for decades, their ability to remain at the top of the game in not only sportswear, but in culture and fashion is inspirational.
I think you could get a good accountant, but I think I am the best accountant for me. Can't nobody count my money like I can count it.
Back when I was growing up, I always had one foot in the street and one foot in music.
It is super important to know what you are getting yourself into when signing a deal. I learned that the hard way.
There's nothing more valuable than your freedom in your life. When you're in the streets you're gambling with that 24/7. If you don't know that you're just flat out dumb to me.
You know, things that's important to you, things you passionate about, you should fight for it.
Back when I was growing up, gangs wasn't heavy. We was solo thugging. When we got money on our own, the hood got money. It wasn't about colors or a certain name when I was growing up. We wasn't doing no gangs. But as the generations change, things change.
I'm a success story. Everybody from Memphis knows that, that's why don't nobody question it.
What scared me was my mother getting evicted from my house. Seeing them repo my momma's car once. Wondering if I didn't provide for her where she was going to be or if I didn't provide for her, where my sister was going to be. Those are the things that scared me.
I grew up in a family where my brother was in prison. My father was in prison.
When people are watching the George Floyd video, that could have been me. I think people are just afraid that the people who are supposed to be protecting and serving you are against you.
Like, I always knew I wanted a Kanye West feature and a Jay-Z feature. I knew that starting in the game when it wasn't even realistic to happen. I already knew who I wanted to do records with.
I like to make music from a personal standpoint, and the music that feels good to me, and when the music becomes big, it's even better because it's an even more organic feeling than when you, like, tried to make the hit record.
I'm one of the few artists who started from the ground up for real. Not taking no records to the radio station begging no DJ to play it. When DJs started playing my records they called me for them. I ain't pull up and ask nobody for nothing, I ain't pay nobody nothing.
Roc Nation is strong, I'm strong and powerful on my own, and when we put it together we're unstoppable.
I'm not a ranter on Twitter or Instagram - that ain't how I'm rocking.
Me, myself, I ain't never had no problem hustling with nobody.
I am one of those cats who doesn't believe in putting everything from your personal life out. I come from the motto 'if they know less it's better.'
Of course I'm blessed. Super, super blessed. I also believe that you don't get nothing that you don't go for. Even with your blessings, you still gotta go do it.
I grew up playing the games, man, back when it was just Nintendos and Sega Genesis.
Some people take off recording cycles, but I record year round.
Memphis is just like any other city. I'm pretty sure it's like the streets of Baltimore, with your hoods and traps.
I am a situation. I am a walking situation.
The fact is, I'm the biggest rapper from Memphis, I help a lot of rappers from Memphis.
I think hip-hop always shifts culture.
I think people may regret not following their instincts a lot.
Memphis breeds hustlers, I feel. It's just cutthroat living period, so to survive around vultures and savages like that, it prepares you for whatever profession you go in.
Labels don't want artists to put out mixtapes because they don't monetize it.
As a street hustler, you've got to be smarter than everybody. You have to outsmart the police, you have to outsmart the people in competition with you, you have to outsmart all the opposition.
You got some artists who want street credit. Like, they market street credit. They take certain incidents and turn it into marketing to try and boost the sales. You don't never see me speaking on that. I'm trying to stay away from it.
If you a rapper, attention can turn into money.
The right watch is like real estate.
When I got a plaque, when I got a No. 1, a cover of 'XXL,' these are the types of things that let me know I'm aligning with the artists I looked up to.
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