They said that I had sold out and (am an) Uncle Tom. And I said well, they deserve to have that view. But I have my thoughts. And I think they’re race-hustling poverty pimps.

Don’t save your best for when you think the material calls for it. Always bring your full potential to every take, and be on top of your job, or they will replace you.

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits

Music is my hustle.

Just out here workin’ hard and doin’ what we do best—grind, hustle, and anything possible to create new opportunities.

I’m sharp. What the street taught me how to do is how to hustle—how to make something out of nothing.

TV has eaten up everything else, and Warhol films are all that are left, which is fabulous. Pork could become the next I Love Lucy, the great American domestic comedy. It’s about how people really live, not like Lucy, who never touched dishwater. It’s about people living and hustling to survive.

The streets is my hustle, I’ve been through the struggle.

A land without myths is like a sky without stars.

From the bottom, all I know is the struggle. Can’t get no job, so all I know is the hustle.