Top 44 Mannie Fresh Quotes

We recorded ‘Chopper City in the Ghetto’ in a house that we was living in.

The name Hot Boys was based on a time in New Orleans where if you were really doing something or if the police were looking for you, people would be like, ‘He hot. That boy hot.’

When a lot of people are calling it a night at 2 A.M., New Orleans is coming alive.

By the age of 17, Wayne was confident. He knew, ‘This is what I am. I’m an MC.’ You had Missy Elliott saying she loved Lil Wayne. Lyrically, he was getting better and better.

Cash Money really had no intentions of being a rap label because when it started, it really was based on bounce. It was one bounce song after another. I started to doing bounce songs for them, and they jumped off.

I’ve always found some way to kind of incorporate second-line music in what I did.

I’ve got different drum machines that I use for different things, but I think the older ones are always the best when it comes down to getting that 808 bass.

I knew Kanye way before he was signed.

I can see how paperwork and foolishness can destroy something.

I’m saying nobody’s got the guts to be a J. Cole. Nobody’s got the guts to be a Kendrick Lamar. We need more of them… Everybody wants to go the easy route.

I did albums for Cash Money. I didn’t do singles – I did whole albums for Cash Money – and at the end of the day, I’m saying I wasn’t paid for albums, so its like you’re doing 10 songs, and somebody pays you for 1.

Flow Tribe is a great bunch of New Orleans guys who have that funkiness to them.

I think I have automobile skills and musical background.

I get most of my reading done whenever I’m in the airport waiting on a flight, have some time to kill, and I have a book with me.

With a lot of young entrepreneurs, it always start rotten, but then something good happens – but do you keep it good?

I’ve had some bad business lessons and learned some things. It’s not always about going platinum. So long as I know who is buying my records and I generate revenue that’s mine, then it’s cool.

There are so many talented people that are on G.O.O.D. Music that it’s nuts.

We still have money issues. We will always have them as long as Cash Money is selling anything that has Mannie Fresh on it.

The cool thing about G.O.O.D. Music is it’s a bunch of great ideas, and I’m one of those ideas.

I’m really working hard at regaining Mannie Fresh as a household name. But for me, it’s always been the long road. What the long road means is if I gotta go city to city, town to town or whatever it is, that’s what I gotta do.

The thing about Big Tymers was if they said they had it, they had it.

I don’t trust nobody, and I mean that.

There will never be another Biggie ever again.

I love to have fun when I do a song.

The Cash Money sound pretty much changed the era. It kind of put the business into rap. It was like, ‘Get your money, dude. This is a billion dollar business.’

When ‘And Then What’ was made, Jeezy already had a street appeal, but ‘And Then What’ put him on the national appeal.

I always felt like the trumpet or trombone player was always the coolest dude in the room.

To have Run-DMC acknowledge you, something like that, you’re like, ‘Oh, I’m that dude.’ To have Jay-Z do a verse, you that dude. To have Jay-Z shout you out in an intro, you’re that dude. Like, it doesn’t get any greater than that. Nobody can take that from you.

‘Chopper City in the Ghetto’ – a lot of it was B.G.’s real story.

When I know it’s like a bass song, I gotta go with my SP-1200.

New Orleans just embraces people who love music.

‘Bling Bling’ was originally a Big Tymers song.

B.I.G. was like the Alfred Hitchcock of rap. Like, this dude’s story form was so nuts.

The single ‘Tha Block Is Hot’ was a song that was true to life.

The reason that I like ‘Game of Thrones’ is because it’s based on all these royal families. And it’s cutthroat – just like hip-hop. It’s all about positioning and figuring out who’s going to last.

All throughout Cash Money, I never abandoned the SP 1200. At the end of the day, I still use my SP 1200 ’cause I like the way the drums sound.

B.G. was just like his lyrics.

I’m too old to be making dis songs.

If you do street music, do it. So be it. That’s not me.

I have some songs on ‘Tha Carter V,’ but if I hear a song five times, I don’t like it no more.

My dad is my biggest fan.

I see how attorneys are, and nobody is really on your side. It’s about money. The attorney is not chasing after your money; he’s chasing after his fee.

That’s what I’m tryin’ to achieve. I want to be a heavyweight in this game, and I’m tryin’ to get the big money. By the same token, the title ‘Big Money Heavyweight’ applies to everybody in the world. That’s what everybody’s tryin’ to achieve.

Don’t just sit around and wait for it to happen. ‘Get Your Roll On.’ If you’re going to buy some rims, graduate from college, or whatever, get your roll on and make something shake.