O. T. Genasis Quotes

I really want to put the emphasis on creating music. I want to cut a record. I want to start going on tour.

I'm never doing a new album. I'll probably do nothing but singles. I'm as good as anybody out there lyrically and conceptually and can go toe to toe with the best of them throughout history. But I don't know how much longer I'll be doing it. It's not really fun anymore.

I've been through the entire gamut of the music industry - I've been playing in clubs since I was 14, and I've been on Warner Bros, on Sony - I've had lots of successes and some serious times of struggle.

I'm hoping to become a recording artist and make albums and go on tour.

In 1999, I just came out of putting out the song 'Vivrant Thing' and 'Breathe and Stop' off the 'Amplified' album. Clive Davis signed me to Arista.

I got a record deal with Sony, and I really just put acting aside. But it's a love.

I don't think I want to transition into being a recording artist for the rest of my life or anything like that, but it's something I'd like to try.

I've been able to experience so many things since I've had my record deal.

Tupac Back' was the first single I had, but prior to that I already had 20-something songs in the street.

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When I was a little girl, my dream was just to hear my song on the radio. It was very fascinating to me, and I was like, 'How do I do that?' Now it's like, 'Oh my God, my song is on the radio!'

I pretty much started going more towards the singing route when I came out with the song 'Selfish.'

When I was doing 'Hot Shot,' I didn't even have an album deal.

I used to DJ in Atlanta, and that's how I kind of got into the music industry.

Back in the Nineties, I was in an R&B group. I signed my first record deal when I was 12.

I wanted to be part of pop culture, so I started songwriting, and I got signed to my first record deal.

We even have a music career. Our song 'Hold On,' charted on Billboard. I mean, we don't have aspirations to tour with Justin Bieber but we have a lot of different interests and talents.

I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business.

I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as I know, had been on an airplane until Columbia sent us to Los Angeles.

Yeah, the next Wu album should be out by late '95.

I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.

I'm consistently recording and releasing stuff online or YouTube videos or whatever it is. I just don't know if it's going to be a full on, I'm the next Rihanna, or whatever. I'm not going for it to that level. But I love making music and I don't think I could stop if I wanted to.

My sons are coming out with music. Square Off, they're called.

We had an EP out and all of a sudden we find record companies are interested in us, and we're thinking, 'Oh, that's really nice, but we don't think we're ready for it.'

When I put out my first mixtape, '50 Cent is the Future,' it was the first tape where an artist did the entire tape in song format.