Tony Yayo Quotes

The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!

The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums.

Look at Macklemore! Perfect comparison, we're two artists from the same city who both had meteoric rises at different periods. I probably sold more albums, because in that era you couldn't steal them; you had to go to a record store to buy them. But Macklemore had more power.

If you have a live reputation and your popularity is proven that way, then you're bound to get signed up because they see all those people buying those tickets and they think some of those people will buy those records, and that's what their business is primarily about.

We have a very loyal fan base, the kind tat buys the record the day it comes out, sees every show, and that's fantastic, but what about the people who would never hear about our band?

I'll never sell 14 million like Hammer, I just wanna do a good Ice-T show.

Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid in Cincinnati who buys our album and doesn't feel like he wasted his pocket money.

I haven't had a big hit record in America since 1987.

If people had good albums, they'd be buying albums. But people are buying singles because they only have good songs.

I actually don't think that I'm gonna sell a lot of records.

I think that Eminem is very talented and remarkably bright, and I actually do like a lot of his music.

I was a 10 million-plus selling artist.

But I remember we sold nearly 18,000 records in one day.

No one really buys records anymore. You can look at sales and do that math real quick. Unfortunately, it's fast food in the music industry. People don't ingest full records anymore.

MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.

A lot of people do talk about the demise of the album, but I still believe that if an artist tries hard to make a great album, people will buy it and listen to it as an album, rather than just a collection of random songs.

Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.

Well, the album 'Intuition' is out and just went platinum officially. So I think to have the music doing what it's doing right now, man, it's the ultimate. Nobody is really selling records out there but we are at a million records and we dropped it at Christmas, so we are just trying to get that thing to like two million, you know.

If I have a hit, then I hope the people who like the hit song go out and buy my album so they can hear it all.

If there is a good musical reason, I think it might draw more attention and sell, though it is not guaranteed. To make a record without a musical reason, you have to either be a pop star who sells automatically or just be lucky.

If you look at Adele, the reason she did so well was she created great music. It wasn't about a clever marketing trick.

Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.

My first five albums were triple-platinum, and I played a lot of concerts.

When I started playing music, people weren't selling 5 million records. That was not the standard; that was not the focus.

Arcade Fire seems to be doing very well; certainly, Phoenix is doing very well.