Words matter. These are the best Tee Grizzley Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
‘Don’t Even Trip’ gave me a chance to really like put some swag on a song. I put the sauce on it.
I really tell a lot of stories. I want people to know who I am.
I used to read three books a day, sometimes.
I appreciate Drake’s music, I appreciate Future’s music, I appreciate Lil Durk’s music. I appreciate Uzi, Meek Mill, I appreciate Migos.
I don’t have no shame.
Discipline yourself. Be conscious of what you think, and what you like. What gets you mad? What gets you in your feelings? Figure that stuff out and take control of it so nobody else can control you.
My goal is just to inspire. To tell people that’s going through the same thing that I went through, that there’s somebody out there that knows… that can relate.
People so obsessed with being real in hip-hop because they don’t want people to think that they’re lying.
TV shows help pass a lot of my time.
A lot of my friends and the people I mingle with, they not famous. They don’t got half of what I got. For me, what that do is, it keeps me humble. It keeps me grateful and appreciative of what I got.
I’m going to try my best to do everything I can for Detroit.
I don’t try to be politically correct.
A lot of rappers think they better than me because they saw me broke, going in and out of studios, and couldn’t pay for studio time.
I can’t freestyle or else I’ll just start saying anything, so I’ll write the song first and then record. I’ll rap to the producer and he’ll make the beat off my rap.
Getting off parole is like walking out them cells all over again. There was a lot of stuff I couldn’t do when I was on parole. I had a curfew, couldn’t go to certain cities, couldn’t be around certain people, and you miss out on a lot of opportunities.
I’m experiencing a lot of new things in life – cars, houses, jewelry – and getting the family situated. I’ve been dealing with fake friends, though, like a lot of people trying to come around. There are pros and cons to this fame thing.
When I was in prison, rap was all I had at that point because I was kicked out of school, all that education just gone and I couldn’t come out of prison to play football – that was all over with.
I read all types of books. I read Christian books, I read black novels, I read religious books. I read stuff like ‘Rich Dad, Poor Dad’ and ‘The Dictator’s Handbook’ and then I turned around and read science-fiction novels.
SAD!’ is definitely one of my go-to songs when I want to vibe.
In chess, you gotta come up with a strategy. I made a lot of plans in my life. ‘I’ma do this, I’ma do that, this is gonna happen, that’s gonna happen.’ And a lot of stuff don’t go as planned. You really gotta act on events as they unfold. That’s how I compare chess to life.
My favorite Adele song is ‘Hello.’
I realized that I got problems bigger than anything that can happen in prison. So I started reading books, talking to people who had a head on their shoulders, sold my TV and just got a whole bunch of books.
I have a relationship with God. I do believe in God, The Son, and Holy Ghost. But I respect everybody, and as far as the Muslims go, I like how they live because they have discipline. They have real structure and I like.
I am going to make singles with other artists and put those out there – I’d love to work with Bruno Mars, Drake, Kendrick Lamar. But when somebody buys a Tee Grizzley album, all they’re going to hear is Tee Grizzley.
I’m just gonna keep making good music and continue to stay in tune with the people and with reality.
I can’t even go to Rolling Loud and perform without the police and the news lying on me, trying to lock me up.
I think my genre is more ‘reality rap’; I talk about my life and the struggles that I’ve been through.
I really can’t make no wrong moves out here, because just as quick as you can get people to love you, you can get people to hate you.
I read a lot of Louis L’amour Western books.
I started rapping when I was young, like 12, 11. But I wasn’t really talking about nothing and it didn’t really get me nowhere.
If I’m just hanging with all stars and people with money, you can get lost and caught up. You get to moving like you got it made and you get to spending. That’s how a lot of people go broke.
I really like R&B more than rap.
I was raised by my grandma, had aunties and sisters in the house.
