Lil B Quotes

We used to call it recurrent airplay when someone had a hit.

I don't think the label cares about an album... People just want their number-one record.

Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.

I never understood the hit-single, quick-success, get-airplay mentality.

To be honest, I don't want No. 1's anymore. Now, don't get me wrong, I wouldn't mind the odd few, but I'd also like a record going in at eight and staying around.

When I put out a record or single I don't allow myself to set up expectations like, 'This song must be a number one hit. Its got to sell X amount of records.'

A record for us that sells 50,000 is a good record, and 100,000 is a serious hit.

'Dream Police' was in the can and ready to go when 'Budokan' started taking off worldwide, sales-wise.

That's absolutely one of my main goals, to have a number one on Billboard. That's a big thing for me. That means people are buying and listening to your music.

I have some lofty goals. I want 'You Broke Up With Me' to go Number One.

But I can say that the business has changed drastically since I started at 8 years old. Everything from the way you tour to how you make a record and how you release the music.

We owned the mixtape game, and every mixtape we put out was like an album.

2018 was an amazing year for me, and music has changed so much: the way you can release it and the ways you can create art around it, the videos, the ways fans can interact, tour in new places.

We were number one most added at radio, when the single came out and that's much different. It took like eight months for any radio to happen on the first record, so a lot more support has happened right out of the box.

It's called 'I Wanna Thank You,' and I'm encouraging everybody out there to blog, Tweet, Facebook, anything about it. Let's sign a petition. The petition is called 'Busta Rhymes Make 'I Wanna Thank You' Your First Single.'

When I put out 'Video Games' in May 2011, it was a 5:25-minute love song; I was surprised when a lot of people said they were listening to it. I was surprised when it went to the radio, without me even knowing how something like that even happens!

I wanted to have a go at a pop career. My first single, 'Baby I Don't Care', was a hit, and the second, 'Bye Bye Boy', reached the Top 20.

The recording industry has changed; they're enjoying such incredible success in the pop field.

Now so many really good groups who have had a first major hit can't get a deal for a second one.

A song is a song and a hit record can change a life.

Recently, I've been working on anew album of material, which should be out in the new Millennium. I'm not sure which song will be put out as a single, but I'm still hoping to get another record in the charts.

Yes it was we, are a few years back parted from our record company and took the album that we were making with them and released it independently in the United States had a number one Independent debut in the United States.

I must have some sort of record in failing to get into the charts.

Shady's great; I love Shady Records.

I'm very new to the industry. I'm not on the Billboard 200 and that is alarming to me. But when I sat down with my management they said it's not a big deal and that it happens all the time.