Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
In the city, you're always looking around, observing everything. In some neighborhoods, your life can depend on it. The details change constantly.
Why should I worry, why should I care? And even when I cross that line, I got street savoire faire.
The difference between me and other Superstars is that I am more intelligent, possess a superior streetwise viciousness and am motivated by money.
Coming back to Flint and seeing my family keeps me humble. Even though I've been on a worldwide stage, I can still communicate with them on a hood level, if that's what you want to call it.
I've always belonged to the street, and I always will. It's in my DNA.
I feel like the D.C. streets just love Gucci Mane. He's like a hood pastor.
I like to keep my feet on the sidewalk.
Rap is from the streets and I'm from the streets. That's why a lot of people accept me.
As a New Yorker, this is what you do: you confront, jab, and slap, sometimes wrongly, then smile and forget about it.
New York City is a very tough place. I'm tough, too. When people give me a punch in the nose, I react by getting even tougher.
The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.
I'm from the street. We all know that.
I'm a creature of the New York City streets.
I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but I lived in Brooklyn for a while as a kid. I went to junior high school there. Girls in Brooklyn have to be tough - I mean real tough - just to get by. It's life in the combat zone.
Chicago prides itself on being a mean city.
I was a pretty free-spirited kid. I was part of a notorious group of troublemakers who didn't do well in school but had a great time exploring Beijing from the inside out.
I usually travel with a posse. I roll deep. I travel like a rapper, but without the artillery. We don't carry guns, we carry cookies.
I'm from New York. You walk by, you bump somebody and they give you a look. There's always an attitude.
I learned to deal with the police... to be tough... to survive.
I hear it all the time in the street: 'It's the crisp bloke.'
As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.
I'm a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm.
I think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want it more connected to the streets and the grime and the roughness of the streets. They don't want the fluff.
I find the education I got from living in Derby and being streetwise and knowing the people that I know, the lessons that I had to learn growing up, have set me in good stead for this kind of working life.
