Quotes from Ludacris


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I really love when people come up to me on the street and say, 'You're my favorite rapper.'


I'm one of those people that just likes to be comfortable.


It's a lot of crooked cops out there. They manipulate the system.


The hip-hop community is made up of a lot of hustlers. Everybody is trying to get theirs, and everybody is trying to eat.


I'm always in that mode - whenever I have a little free time, I'm always recording songs, writing, whatever I gotta do. It's like my job is my vacation.


I'm just basically spillin' out my emotions to the world. 'Cause rap is about emotion. And I want you to feel what I'm feelin', 'cause that's what it's all about.


No matter how much money I ever get, I'm going to want to provide for my family and never have to go back to really struggling. You don't ever want to go outside, you don't ever want to be left in the cold. You want to be safe.


Anytime I shoot a video, I just think of anything I can do to set myself apart from everybody in the music industry.


I feel like we need more aggression today.


I'm going to continue to keep music number one.


I think every album you have to stretch further and further, give people another piece of you. But then I always try to deviate from the norm.


I used to be a video game freak, but I've kind of like eased back.


I'm a part of the no-tight-jeans coalition.


You don't have that many women in the industry so the lane is wide open.


Of course I have bills to pay, but at the same time, it's more about the passion and the love, and I think that's where music should come from, the heart, not necessarily just to cash a check.


I made my first complete song when I was 9.


I've been trying to nail it into everyone's heads that I feel like I am the most versatile rapper.


I think half the battle is just being comfortable in front of the camera - and I already am, doing so many videos and interviews, so then it just takes that extra step of trying to get into character.


A lot of beefs in the music industry are caused from miscommunication and just not really understanding what's going on, having people in your ear saying this is what somebody did, or this is what somebody did to you.


I've never been a cocky individual, but I am very confident.