Rico Nasty Quotes

When I was 12 and met my real father for the first time, I was terrified I would lose the one I already had.

My pop did a little time.

Early on in my life, I got two older brothers; we used to listen to Eminem, 50 Cent, Lil Wayne.

It was good to get out of prison and home to the family.

I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.

I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.

My dad was a musician who went to Berklee, and he made me learn piano when I was five.

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.

When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who these people are, the good and the bad.

You know not having my real dad around and having a step dad made me want to be a great dad. So now I have been one for 9 years. And now 3 daughters. So, that is what I am - a dad, first and foremost, before anything else. It's just something that comes natural now.

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

My brother brought home 'At San Quentin' when I was about 7, and we played it over and over again.

'E.T.' was a healing movie; it was a heart movie. It was all about getting about getting home and love.

I'm lucky: I have very funny kids.

I love my dad.

I can confirm that I have been released from prison.

Every day is Father's Day to me when I'm with her: when I'll be able to hold my daughter and see her grow and see her smile. That's Father's Day to me every day.

I grew up in Malibu, so it's nice to be back home and be with my parents and sit and drive my car and listen to music and just chill out for a little bit.

I loved 'Nothing Was the Same' so much. For me, that was the first Drake record that I got into.

I had this little rap group, and we were called '2 Too Many'... We used to hang out in front of Jazzy Jeff's record studio every day.

I grew up listening to country music with my dad on the way to school.

My old man Shorty was a huge figure in my musical life.

I think my best memory was taking my baby sisters trick-or-treating for the first time.

I kinda gave my childhood to hip-hop, literally. I didn't go to parties in high school. All I did - well, I was DJing parties in high school.

I was a rapper who was 13 or 14 years old at one point, and it was a dream. I used to see videos of other rappers around the world, and I used to hope that I could be like that one day.