Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Young Dolph - Page 2

It was a strategic plan, because prior to us doing 'Dum and Dummer,' me and Glock never had music together. So I planned it that way - because I always wanted Glock to take off and go big on his own, without a Dolph co-sign or Dolph feature.

There's a lot of people in this game that wait for Paper Route, Dolph or Glock to drop just to get that new lingo and style and see what type of creativity we on.

I'm not like most artists or most CEOs - I'm a CEO first, then an artist.

When you from Down South, it's, 'You're a trap rapper,' 'You're a street rapper.' They try to put you in a category.

I'd rather motivate somebody all day long.

People, my age, people older, people younger, it's like they look up to me. They listen to my lyrics for wisdom. They listen to my lyrics for like game. They listen to my lyrics for real deal beneficial purposes.

Not a lot of people make it out from where I'm from but I'm a living example showing you that it's possible. Word hard, play hard.

You work hard enough everybody going to see it.

Once you been listening to the same CD for, like, two weeks, three weeks, it get old to you. You need something new.

Yeah, I was going to have no features on 'Bulletproof.' But I ended up putting Gucci Mane on it. That's just my partner. He's just one of my personal friends. It ain't no different for him from my homeboys in Memphis. I just have a real personal relationship. I met Gucci Mane through my partner Drumma Boy, the producer.

There were two hoods, Magnolia and Castalia; I went to Magnolia Elementary. Back then there was slick beefing - all the Castalia kids would go over to Magnolia.

If there's something negative about you, you've got to bring out the positive to the front.

I told my grandma a long time ago that I was going to take my mom and dad out the hood.

You make good music, you're going to get good results.

Man, my little boy wanted to hear some new music. So it was like, I can't just play all my music around him, so I got to go ahead and make a whole project so I can get it clean, and have a clean version of all the songs just so he can listen to my music, you feel me?

I like seeing new artists with no buzz, because I can give them game, and they'll take that and run with it. It's not like someone who's been around that feels like they know it all.

Baller Alert' is based on my lifestyle. As I talk about in the song, I've done a lot of dirt and worked hard to get to where I am. This song, like a lot of my songs, is about celebrating life.

When I get my music mixed, I'm actually in the studio with the engineer, every project I've ever put out. So it's supposed to always say mixed by whatever engineer I use and Dolph.

It's a big world and I got a lotta money to get.

I have to think big.

I'm not trying to regret nothing in my career.

This has always been my plan and my vision, to build a strong team and build artists like Glock. I always knew I could do it with artists, because I saw what I did for myself as an artist.

I really don't like showing my hand.

It's really important for everyone in our community to stand for something.

I got a lot of artists, and I been dropping all my artists' projects, and they going up.

When people think Down South they think: 'They're not up on game,' or 'They ain't hip.'

I've been targeted since I was 17, 18, 19.

I told myself, if I sacrifice Young Dolph and never sign to a major label and I get Young Dolph hot? I'm going to earn and get all of these relationships and do a lot of networking. I'm gonna know the business, all the way, ins and outs.

When Young Dolph dead and gone, people still going to be talking about the Paper Route Empire.

I know how to make myself hot. I can drop my own music. I can shoot my own videos.

I know what the streets want to hear, I know what the streets going through, the lingo, the fashion, everything. It ain't nothing; it's my real life.

We did so much music together, before he got locked up, it's just, Gucci, he don't hold on to music. He like, Man, let's put this out, let's put that out, let's put this out. That's what he do. He like to put out a lot of music.

RIP to George Floyd and condolences to the whole family.

Dodge all the suckas.

But that was our thing from day one: to make Paper Route Empire strong. That's why I never wanted to sign to no label.

I'm here to satisfy the people. I'm here to teach. I'm here to motivate. I'm here to give people the adrenaline, the push and support.

I'm always doing my part as a CEO.

You really got people that you got to talk to every day, you got teams that you gotta work with every day. You lose track of... not real life, but the people that really love you. It becomes a distanced thing because you give that job all of your time.

You ain't got to run your mouth. All you got to do is let you actions speak.

In a relationship, whether you got money to deal with it or no money to deal with it, the best relationships are going to be the ones where you understand each other.