Benny the Butcher

I would tell people when you hear a love song from me, it ain't going to be, 'Ok baby, I love you. I want to take you to Paris, France.' It's going to be on my level and my terms.

I feel like we all are guests. Hip Hop don't belong to none of us.

I don't feel that Hip Hop is mine, I feel like I have a pass in this thing of ours that we call Hip Hop. It's like a fraternity. I feel like a guest too because everybody not allowed in. And even if you're in, that doesn't mean you're allowed in.

When you hold something the longest, you get to change it, you get to refine it, you get to make it what you wanted to make.

Hip-Hop is the reason why I'm here.

You could make someone the president or an A&R at Def Jam, but that doesn't mean they're ready for it. A lot of people don't want to work, they just want what comes with the work - the lifestyle, the fame, and the money.

Our heroes aren't everybody else heroes.

I was a psychology major.

I did do a couple semesters of college.

I'm really a nice guy.

I'm a good essay writer, I know how to write. I was just good at it.

I always was good, even in my times of being bad as hell in school. I always used to get good grades in school, period. Especially English, writing, and literature.

I definitely read a lot in school, and even more in prison.

Rap gave me a lot.

Everything is not for everybody.

Celebrities aren't supposed to share their public opinion.

I can't live life without my kids.

I'm the freshest from the street corner.

Everybody makes it to different checkpoints and that's why they say it's lonely at the top. That crowd that you show with from jump, you don't show with that crowd at the top. And I don't make the rules I just play by 'em.

I'm going to bring the streets back to the forefront.