Top 86 Quotes & Sayings by Young Thug
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
I hope to be like Bill Gates, bro. With all the money in the world.
I feel like there's no such thing as gender.
I was in the streets at eight, nine years old.
I always paid attention to Lil Wayne - close attention. He's my idol. He's still my idol.
I feel like the phone was in my way. So I got rid of the phone to focus.
Ain't no problem with me and Kevin Gates; everybody just trippin'.
I want every Grammy.
He's so sophisticated... Kanye is like 'Fifty Shades of Grey,' he's interesting, so you want to be around him.
I did a song in eight minutes. I thought everybody could write songs that fast. But working with a lot of them, they don't.
It's dangerous to be anybody popular.
Atlanta is the number one place to live. You live better, you eat better, the rides are better, vehicles is better deals. It's better people. More mean people, but at my level you want it to be about business, so it's perfect for me.
You have to be yourself.
If I didn't have a girlfriend, I'd have 10 girls at the studio, and they would make me not rap.
I've got a condo in Miami, but I don't live in it.
In my world, of course, it don't matter. You could be a gangster with a dress, you could be a gangster with baggy pants.
If you're 30, 40 years old, you're not getting listened to by minors.
If you feel that you can just come in the studio and freestyle on my song, then I'm ready to rap battle you. That's just how I feel about it because I know I'm way harder than another rapper freestyling on my song.
My dad wanted me to play football so bad, he took me to Washington High School on the west side of Atlanta because they were number one. They never lost.
I only listen to Lil Wayne.
I don't do my own Instagram.
Wayne and Drake, it takes them so long to do a song. I understand why, because they want it to be perfect. But I think I can do a perfect song in 10 minutes.
It's like, boom! - I've got a girlfriend. It turned out to be a good thing because it made me a rapper.
I can't remember 16 bars. Unless you write it, you can't. I just do it bar for bar.
Whatever I think of, that's what I do. I wake up and think, 'I want to buy a car', I buy a car. I wake up and be like, 'I just want to lay in bed with my girl', I do that. I wake up and want to rap, I rap. So whatever I think of.
I'm the type of person to put myself in everybody else's shoes.
Ninety percent of my clothes are women's.
The reason why I moved from Young Thug to Jeffery was because I felt like I did a wrong turn.
When I was in high school, I had a gambling problem.
You gotta understand, you can't look at no pictures and look at the media and the critics and what they saying on no Internet.
I don't want to be 50 years old and rapping, man. I'm pretty sure nobody wants to do that.
My mom got 11 kids. We struggled.
I don't ever want to be like a peasant. I want to always be all right. But motivation is fans - not your kids, your mum, none of that. All of that matters, but number one is your fans.
Fabo is a real rock star, but people look over it, so I'll try to bring it to the light if I can.
I've always been a sharing person.
I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
I ain't want my kids to grow up and call me Thug. I don't want anybody to kind of look at me like that. So I'm gonna just use my real name.
I didn't used to do shows, because I used to be so shy. We'd perform, and I'd be at the back, thinking of another song. I was so shy, I ain't never getting in front of the camera; I would never get on stage.
When it comes to swag, there's no gender involved.
We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.
When I was 12, my feet were so small, I wore my sisters' glitter shoes. My dad would whoop me: 'You're not going to school now, you'll embarrass us!'
I ain't just collab-ing with anybody. Because I don't care about making friends. I got enough friends.
I'd make a million songs with Game because we never had no real problem.
Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
My dad wouldn't buy me tight pants. I had to get my own money to buy them.
I like everything that people say. No matter what they say. You gay, you a punk. You got a nice girlfriend, you're ugly, you can't rap, you're the hardest.
I never write. Never! I do not even remember if I can write … This is a true freestyle in general. I put a beat, I said some stuff, I retain ideas, I do it again, with a particular intonation, I test, and especially I record live.
Today I live in the suburbs, in a neighborhood [that's not] too bad.
I just put anything on my back. I take what I have on hand.
I'm always in range of a microphone. I even have a studio at home.
I know, every time I get somewhere, it'll be strange. But if I understand correctly, I also have fans here and it reassures me.
When you see them be successful, however small, you say to yourself, wow. And everything becomes possible. Never denigrate, to say we will not succeed.
I always knew I could rap, and in a sense I always rapped. And I've always behaved like a rapper. But I started to take it seriously when I recorded with the people of Brick when I started to receive some money.
I don't want my kids saying, 'My dad was a gangster, so I need to be a gangster. I would rather mine say, 'My dad was a stunna, so I need to be a stunna.'
This is the industry that wants [music], the rap industry. You have to be on deck all the time, but you do not have the time to do the album. It is an energy, it must be present in everyday life.
I know that everybody listens to me, but only my true fans will go and buy my album.
I do not always listen again but if something strikes me, I exploit it.
For a long time I heard rap without paying attention, but it is still a way of life, even when you're a kid.
I never write. Never! I do not even remember if I can write.
Like, Jay Z has some of the sickest lyrics ever, but I would never buy his CD, just because of my age and because of his age. By the time I turn that old, I ain't gonna be doing what he's doing.
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