Pusha T Quotes

That's a real void in my life. I see a lot of people who struggled and went to jail and the dogs were after them. I'd look them in the eyes and say, 'God almighty, I wish I'd have been there.'

The first few years in L.A. were really tough and scary, but I had to figure things out for myself.

I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island.

At a young age, I had to give up a lot of things, like being able to hang out with my friends.

If it wasn't for prison, I was in a bad way.

After my father died, we faced hardship but never asked anybody for help. We were self-sufficient.

My dad, he believed in me. My first year was hard for me. I came to the States with myself, and no one came with me.

When I think about my teenage years, when my parents broke up, and feeling alone and being out of control and having to survive... And then other times when you've had to find your own way... that's always been a dominant theme in what I've done.

When I was around 18, I got kicked out of my parents' house, and I wasn't allowed to take anything with me. I slept on YMCA towels for a whole semester in university before my father found out and bought me a mattress. I felt really free because I was finally living on my own, but I was also really depressed because I had nothing.

I've said many of my friends are in jail; some already died.

A lot of times, people won't be 100 percent real with their story, and I wanted to give people the drawn-out experience of the perseverance and the struggle that it took to get here.

All this could go tomorrow, and I would still know how to function, because I never had nothing before. I went through the struggle - it was a rough life.

I don't want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

That loss was to breed an independence, a toughness of spirit, and an awareness of adversity and discipline that have never left me,.

I think part of a hero construct is overcoming loss, or being abandoned, or having to make your own way in the world.

The streets will get you in jail.

I think my genre is more 'reality rap'; I talk about my life and the struggles that I've been through.

I am so honest that at times people get offended by what I say. In our industry, truth is not really appreciated. I love to be of my own. I try spending quality time with my family, my two very close friends and my pet Liam.

My father was jailed off and on for seven years.

Even going to jail would be easy compared to losing you.

Only poor people go to jail.

The worst lesson that can be taught to a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings

Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest.

You don't know how hard I've tried to be left standing all by myself.

Get jailed, jump bail, join the Army if you fail.