YG Quotes

On my mixtapes, I just rap. I just lay out a lot of situations.

New York is turnt. It’s really like 25 hours out here. 25/8.

In the record business, if you sign an artist that don’t really know too much about the business, you can really get over on them in a lot of different ways, so it’s a lot of people that don’t give artist the game because they’re trying to make the most money in the fastest way off their artists.

I fell out with a group of the homies, including Mustard. I’m dealing with success.

I got a song called ‘Bicking Back Being Bool.’ That’s our lingo.

I ain’t no politician.

You gotta stay on point in everything in life.

I don’t want to make people think too much.

I’m growing as an artist.

On God, when you come to New York, it’s, like, work.

It’s not our land; it’s not made for us. It’s America. That’s how it was designed. We came here as slaves. It wasn’t designed for us to win.

I’ma stay consistent. I’ma deliver. And I’ma keep using my platform to uplift people who I feel got what it take or deserve it or just – you feel me?

The 4Hunnid label is like a family.

If I was president, you wouldn’t be sitting in jail for crimes that’s not violent; you wouldn’t be doing too much time for crime that’s not violent.

I have trust issues. For reasons, though – plenty of reasons.

I’m a rapper, not a singer.

I just like music, bro. I listen to everyone.

Me and Mustard the same age, and when we was growing up, he was DJing all the parties, and I was at all the parties.

Be yourself and set the trend. Don’t follow.

I love the fans and the supporters.

Me having my moms and pops in my life and knowing and seeing what they went through for us – it’s why I’m a good father.

If I was president, all the food in the grocery stores would be organic.

I got a platform and a game. I got, like, people who look up to me, who listen to me.

The streets made me who I am.

I’m saying us – our culture, our race, our people – we need to do better.

That’s what a lot of people know me as: they call it party music.

I ain’t come from money.

You gotta raise your kids, take care of your family.

I’m a storyteller… a preacher.

My peoples told me they thought I should go talk to a therapist, and I went and talked to a therapist, and we let Vice record it.

I love my daughter.

I’m trying to make sure my kids’ kids got paper.

I’ve filmed a lot of my videos in Compton, but filming a movie, we really can’t do it because the police will come and shut you down.

I been in the streets for a long time. They know me. They see me. They heard stories.

I feel like when you successful, it’s more stress ’cause it’s more stuff you dealin’ with.

Def Jam was always trying to get me to put out an album because I had ‘Toot It and Boot It.’

Everybody gotta vote. I can’t go tell you who you should vote for because I don’t know what you got going on or what you tryna get.

I want to do – I want to be putting out classic stuff that’s gonna stick and last forever, you feel me?

‘Don’t Come to L.A.’ is talking about how out-of-towners come to L.A., and they try to start claiming the culture, the lifestyle. And they’re really not from it. That’s really what’s it’s about.

I eat breakfast most times.

I’m going to keep making clothes, I’m going to do more movies, and I’m always going to rap.

It’s hard to stay vegan and eat right when you’re moving around so much, but I’ve been off that alkaline water heavy, though.

Knowledge is dangerous when you’re a person of colour. It makes you a powerful individual, and that’s what ‘Stay Dangerous’ represents.

I was Lil Wayne’s fan when I hit, like, 15, 16 and up.

I worked on ‘Who Do You Love?’ for, like, six months, really trying to, like – when I got it, I got it, but I was working on it for a minute cause I never had nothing to it. I couldn’t get the flow or nothing. Then I just got it.

I went to Paramount High School, Mayfair High School, all types of high schools. I’m not a high school graduate, but it’s all good.

I just woke up one morning, and I painted my Maybach red – I wrapped it, matter of fact, red – and I thought, ‘I might as well change my album to ‘Still Brazy’ ’cause I gotta be real with myself.’

I went to jail for residential burglary. I got a strike, and I was 19 years old.

When I’m outside the studio, there’s some paranoia.

On the ‘Blacks & Browns’ record, it’s me and Sad Boy. He’s a Hispanic artist, and we’re talking about what we got going on with our peoples.

When you think of YG, you think of the West Coast, L.A., the lifestyle; that’s what the brand about. That’s what 4Hunnid represents.

The first album was going to be called ‘I’m from Bompton,’ and then I changed it to ‘My Krazy Life.’

My mom and her whole side of the family, they all from Compton.

I’m experimenting. That was part of the reason why I named the album ‘Stay Dangerous.’ It was about being proactive, not reactive.

Rock groups – they last for a long time.