Young Buck Quotes

When I was 17-years-old, I was in the music business.

When I was signed, that was before the punk thing even happened.

Shady's great; I love Shady Records.

It's definitely been a long, long... long, long, long, long, long journey since I was selling burnt CD's out of my backpack in downtown Oakland.

MMG for life.

I'd always been a club kid, so I was totally unaware that people had their own record companies.

I actually met The Game in my hood on Crenshaw and Slauson. I was outside on the block with 20 of my homies. I see the Range Rover, and we all walked up to his car. I handed him my CD.

The Roots - we signed our first record deal when I was about 19 years old.

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

I don't really know the logistics of a Soundcloud rapper.

I grew up carrying crates of records for Will Smith and those guys.

That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them.

I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.

Coming from Ruff Ryders, there would be, like, 30 guys in the studio at once, and then me, trying to do my own thing.

So So Def has been one of the most successful and consistent labels in the game in the last 10 years.

It's always the music first for me. But if the music isn't selling, there isn't gonna be no business. So you gotta make sure music is always the first priority.

Recorded music is more a marketing tool than a revenue source.

In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that.

Being a recording artist, selling music, selling concerts out, having a reality show, starting film; it's great, it's beautiful.

There are no record companies in Waikiki.

Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.

I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones.

SST was formed to put out the first Black Flag record. Basically, there wasn't anyone else to do it. I felt that what I was doing with Black Flag was very worthwhile, and I wanted to get it out there.

First of all, I think that is true, if you are a musician, particularly on the come, that you do have to end up in one of these musical centers, some way, to be viable, saleable and so on.

When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.