Curtis Jackson Quotes & Sayings

Be prepared to do whatever you have to do. If you get put in a situation where your back is up against the wall let your gun go off. — Curtis Jackson

Every night I talk to God, but he don't say nothing back. I know he protecting me, but I still stay with my gat. — Curtis Jackson

When I fell in love with hip-hop, there was a terminology at the time called "battling." All that was just battling with other artists, but after Tupac and those incidents when it spilled into the street and turned into a negative situation, battling turned into a beef. A whole new dynamic. — Curtis Jackson

Hip-hop - it's the safari: it allows people who aren't under those circumstances to come closer to inner-city life, to explore it without actually being in danger. It's something kids in middle America indulge in to be rebellious. — Curtis Jackson

Puffy's contribution to hip-hop culture was the remix. He offered us the music that his mom played in front of him, with newer drums and younger artists. That worked, and will consistently be there. The remix comes right after the original record, that's something Puffy did to influence the culture. — Curtis Jackson

I love funny women, and just being around them talking is fine with me. I love an interesting mind. — Curtis Jackson

In Hollywood they say there's no business like show business. In the hood they say there's no business like ho' business. — Curtis Jackson

You gotta be smart enough to pick up the information as you go. — Curtis Jackson

I don't need to get any validation by someone else who sits next to me in first class. If you think a seat in first class makes you a star, then you're not one. — Curtis Jackson

Either you are a victim or you victimize someone and in the hood it's no holds barred. The kid in the schoolyard that doesn't want to fight always leaves with a black eye. — Curtis Jackson

50 Cent is a metaphor for "change". But originally it was a gangster from Fort Greene Projects named 50 Cent and I took the name when he passed and because he's not active, I thought it'd be cool to take it. — Curtis Jackson

When you walk in your home you don't have to maintain the same attitude that you had out in the street. You can be different with your people and your family than you are with a person that you run into in the hood. Even them they have to know to respond to you differently in the hood cuz if people see something out of the character that they portray you. They'll try you. — Curtis Jackson

The importance of 'Dream School' is monumental. Helping to inspire these students to reach their potential is personally gratifying. — Curtis Jackson

Beware of feedback from friends whose judgments could be tainted by feelings of envy or the need to flatter. — Curtis Jackson

The State of New York City says in defense you can use as much force as you feel like the person that is coming for you with. So if I'm wrong than the law is wrong. That's really the way I felt. — Curtis Jackson

When I have conversations with people, for some strange reason they think I'm gonna die and they're not. But you know what? Death means nothing to me. — Curtis Jackson

I think it's easier for the general public to embrace me in a negative way. You have people who already have a perception of me that says I'm a bad person. — Curtis Jackson

What I do is take the jewelry back to the jeweler and they redo the jewelry with the same gold from the last thing. — Curtis Jackson

Look into the windows of my soul. The eyes never lie, they bloodshot red. — Curtis Jackson

Just be confident. I think confidence is the most attractive part of a person. — Curtis Jackson

If you consider yourself a part of the culture, then finances can't allow you to be bigger than the actual art form. — Curtis Jackson

Money definitely changes your lifestyle. But the things you go through makes who you are. Your experiences, they travel with you. — Curtis Jackson

Sunny days wouldn't be special, if it wasn't for rain. Joy wouldn't feel so good, if it wasn't for pain. Death gotta be easy, 'cause life is hard; It'll leave you physically, mentally, and emotionally scarred. — Curtis Jackson

I started hustling at 12, my mother hustled ahead of me. I was only allowed to because they knew me. — Curtis Jackson

I'll break your face, have your ass mumbling to the jay, you going against me dawg you makin a mistake. I'll split your wig and leave you open like a mickeal jackson jacket with all them zippers. — Curtis Jackson

When a person completely has nothing but negative interest in you and would like nothing more than to see you in the worst situation possible, then why would you consistently go toward that energy? — Curtis Jackson

Just be confident. Confidence is the most attractive part of a person. Because if they're not confident enough to show you who they are, you don't even know who they are. — Curtis Jackson

Stay to yourself, just listen. Do more listening than talking. The more you speak the higher the chances you sayin the wrong thing. — Curtis Jackson

When you get in a point when you generate finances in a circle of people they gonna treat you different. They gonna treat you like as if you're gonna bring the money. You're the cash cow. — Curtis Jackson

I don't necessarily view death as something negative. Death gives meaning to life. Living in fear of death is living in denial. Actually, it's not really living at all, because there is no life without death. It's two sides of the one. You can't pick up one side and say, I'm just going to use the 'heads' side. No. It doesn't work like that. You have to pick up both sides because nothing is promised to anyone in this world besides death. — Curtis Jackson

It's Fifty, not Fiddy. — Curtis Jackson

When I'm actually creating music, I try not to listen to the hip-hop records that are going on, because I think, subconsciously, we steal from each other. — Curtis Jackson

Death must be easy cuz life is hard — Curtis Jackson

I'm not trying to save the world. As a musician and artist, it just ain't me. — Curtis Jackson

You have to challenge yourself and your muscles. When you are really regimented, it's the same over and over and you start to get comfortable. Switching up the style of training works your muscles differently. — Curtis Jackson

I can't have a lot of people around me all the time. It really bugs me out that I have that many people. I need to be by myself. — Curtis Jackson

Even the toughest guys are afraid to be anything outside of the toughest guys. — Curtis Jackson

Since I did the SK Project and I partner with the United Nations World Food Program, I got a lot of different feedback from people online. Through social networks and through the Twitter. I read the comments and see 'em saying, 'People hungry here, Fif.' — Curtis Jackson

If I don't make music I'm going back to the hood. I'll sell crack. I'm gonna go back to sell crack if I can't make it in the music business and that's what I was doing before that. — Curtis Jackson

I like generals. I like Napoleon. I like strategy. The majority of them are praised for mass destruction, but it's exciting to see how it comes to the mind mentally. — Curtis Jackson

I think Frank Ocean is a talented artist; I think he's created material that made me know his name, that impressed me, with things he said on a song like 'Novacane.' — Curtis Jackson

I don't have a problem removing people from around me. They could be around for a long time, and I could get comfortable or used to them, and then I can just get rid of them. — Curtis Jackson

Power is confidence. The confidence to deliver your answer when you're in a board meeting is what will allow you to move up faster. The confidence to be yourself in front of people creates a separation. — Curtis Jackson

People often say I have so much energy, that I never stop; but that's what it takes to accomplish your goals. — Curtis Jackson

Wise men listen and laugh, while fools talk. — Curtis Jackson

If you are ambitious, you are running in a tunnel that never ends. You will always find something new to go after. [ ... ] I got high for the first time with Get Rich or Die Tryin' and I have been trying to achieve that feeling again since then, all the time. — Curtis Jackson

There had to be a better way - if I couldn't find it, I wanted to create it. — Curtis Jackson

My new music video, 'My Life' featuring Eminem and Adam Levine, the only person in the actual video who you can physically make out besides myself and Adam Levine is Andre Dirrell. — Curtis Jackson

I have received 16 Grammy nominations and I have no trophies, because I chose to write the harsh realities. I stayed true to myself and I've taken a little beating behind it. — Curtis Jackson

God's the seamtress that tailor-fitted my pain yo I got scriptures in my brain I can spit at yo dane straight the good book, look, niggas is shook 50 fear no man, warrior swing swords like conana — Curtis Jackson

I feel like you can will yourself into a good space. Things that are meant to happen, will. If you believe in yourself enough, you can help yourself learn. You can inspire yourself in ways to discipline yourself to a point where you CAN become good enough. — Curtis Jackson

When I put out my first mixtape, '50 Cent is the Future,' it was the first tape where an artist did the entire tape in song format. — Curtis Jackson

Concentrate on your money. Try to hold your paper. It takes money to make money, so save your money, opportunites come. — Curtis Jackson

I'm the type to swallow my blood before I swallow my pride. — Curtis Jackson

You can be a victim, or you can lock and load. — Curtis Jackson

You grimy as birds shittin' on the top of ya Fords. — Curtis Jackson

Move before you think you are ready. It is as if you are making it a little more difficult for yourself, deliberately creating obstacles in your path When you feel that you must work harder to get to your goal because you are not quite prepared, you are more alert and inventive. This venture has to succeed and so it will. — Curtis Jackson

When you've been in life-threatening situations, you become aware that life is not for ever. — Curtis Jackson

He who fears fate lives like a coward — Curtis Jackson

The new artist is meeting the general public before they meet the record company. They're able to put the material on YouTube and have a million views before they even meet an executive at a record company, and get the deal based on that. — Curtis Jackson

You learn a lot about yourself when you have success for a while. Like, a lot of things that you think are really important aren't. But you need that process. — Curtis Jackson

If I didn't smell so good would you still hug me? — Curtis Jackson

I need you. I need you to hate, so I can use you for your energy — Curtis Jackson

Because hip-hop has no requirements, you deal with people that have the least intelligence on the planet. Some of the people that compare themselves to me, compare themselves to me because they rap and I rap. They can't even read the contracts that they sign to be a rapper, to do the deal. — Curtis Jackson

If I wrote you a love letter, would you write back? — Curtis Jackson

Some people are born with very little; some are fortunate enough to have it all. When I grew up, we didn't have much. I had to hustle to get what I wanted ... but I had that hunger for more. I didn't always make the right choices, but I learned from my mistakes. — Curtis Jackson

Obama is for same-sex marriage. If the president is saying that, then who am I to go the other way? — Curtis Jackson

It's not funny when you actually get shot, but afterwards, yeah, it's funny. — Curtis Jackson

People who actually have money don't want to talk about it. They want to talk about everything else. — Curtis Jackson

I just feel really good about my accomplishments. I haven't had, like, a party because a deal goes through or something like that. I don't know. I need to develop that - I need to have something that I do when things go right. — Curtis Jackson

I had to overcome challenge after challenge in order to take my life from nothing to living my dreams. — Curtis Jackson

I read all of the stories that people write about me. The ones that are really interesting are the ones where they actually write their take on me as opposed to just printing what I said, because they're asking similar questions so often, sometimes it just sounds like I'm answering the questions different intentionally. — Curtis Jackson

If you're not doin anything and you don't have goals and you got nothing to do then you might as well go jump off something, you just wasting the air. — Curtis Jackson

Every morning I wake up in a home where Mike Tyson previously laid in the bed and he earned over $500 million his career. It makes me conscious. — Curtis Jackson

I'M PISSIN' ON GROWN WOMEN. R. KELLY DO IT TO CHILDREN. — Curtis Jackson

My past is my shadow, it follows me everywhere I go. Well, all those things come from when I had no other choice. They put my back against the wall. I do what I gotta do. — Curtis Jackson

Ambition is a tunnel that you run through that doesn't end. — Curtis Jackson

There's a small group of guys in hip-hop that really have money. The whole culture talks about money, but it's a small group that actually has it. — Curtis Jackson

I started boxing at 12, and I was above weight for my age, so they put me in the ring with adults ... When you're fighting all the time, it gives you the ability to fight without getting angry. — Curtis Jackson

Most people can't handle boredom. That means they can't stay on one thing until they get good at it. And they wonder why they're unhappy. — Curtis Jackson

I done been to the pearly gates, they sent me back said the good die young I ain't eligible for that — Curtis Jackson

Death is a large form of entertainment, probably the largest. Watching death in different ways is entertaining for us, whether it's a high-speed chase and a guy grabs a helicopter and flies away. We know the reality of it is that he wouldn't be physically able to hold onto that helicopter and fall to his death. But it's entertaining to watch. — Curtis Jackson

I am what I am; you can like it or love it. It feels good to blow fifty grand and think nothing of it. — Curtis Jackson

My grandmother, she's been the positive portion of my life the entire time. — Curtis Jackson

My work out routine is always changing. It should never stay the same for long periods of time. — Curtis Jackson

I think either you're creative or you're not. In general, I don't think you need to be in pain to actually be creative unless you're writing love songs. Then you might need to have some ups and downs within your emotions to start to capture that. — Curtis Jackson

I've got to make it to heaven; for going through hell. — Curtis Jackson

My confidence allows me to do things my way and help people make a decision. People like the idea of me just being me. — Curtis Jackson

My grandparents went through a bad experience themselves; they invested money in a church and got burned - the pastor had his own agenda - and my grandfather lost interest in the church after that. That was when I had the option to not go. 'Grandpa ain't going; I'm gonna stay with Grandpa.' — Curtis Jackson

You can do all them push-ups to pump up your chest,
I got a 12 gauge Mossberg to pump up your chest,
Have you gasping for air after that shell hit your vest.
Fear me like you fear God, 'cause I bring death. — Curtis Jackson

The more my fans know about my past, the more they'll be able to predict and understand some of the moves I make in the future. — Curtis Jackson

I'm down to sell records but not my soul ... — Curtis Jackson

My grandma pregnant again trying to talk her out of keeping it — Curtis Jackson

I get photobombed by the hottest people in the world. — Curtis Jackson

I'm not a gangster, I'm not a thug.. I'm just me and if I feel like someone is trying to hurt me.. yeah I'm gonna hurt 'em.. if you come and you ain't coming right I'm gonna blow your head off. — Curtis Jackson

For me success was always going to be a Lamborghini. But now I've got it, it just sits on my drive. — Curtis Jackson

Chris Lighty was a huge portion of my actual career. It's difficult to adjust to not have someone around that's in your life, in your life. — Curtis Jackson

I don't display emotions. I have every feeling that everyone else has, but I've developed ways to suppress them. Anger is one of my most comfortable feelings. — Curtis Jackson

I have less compassion than the average human. — Curtis Jackson

In my neighborhood ... they view the police as someone who comes to take their loved ones away. — Curtis Jackson