Musician

I've failed once or twice real big, independent.

I never lose touch. If you let me tell it, I'll tell you I never got my just due and my respect for being one of the greats in hip-hop, and because of that, the fire never burned out. There's more and more of a need for me to succeed or take the legacy a step further, and that's what it is.

What I do like about Donald Trump is that he's not bought by the lobbyists. He put up his own money, funded his own campaign. That means he's nobody's puppet.

Fat Joe ain't out here trying to battle-rap everybody in the world. That's not what I'm about.

Latinos finally have a genre of music that represents them, and they're supporting reggaeton in such huge numbers that people can't help but notice there's a revolution going on.

I beefed with 50 Cent for seven years.

There's millions of gay people in the world. In 2011, you've got to hide that you're gay? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, be real.

All rappers exaggerate.

I wish we had more diversity.

Minorities have been hustling backwards from check to check.

I'm trying to get in where I fit in and take it to the next level.

I was at a party New Year's Eve, and - no lie - at least 10 different people came up to me. One guy was like, 'I lost 30 pounds because of you.' So people just coming up to me. I don't know these people - random people.

When I came up in hip hop, there was no such thing as a Puerto Rican rapper doing hip hop for many mainstream people, so I was the ship, the captain, and the crew.

This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.

J. R. Smith's incredible, man, just incredible off the bench.

I'm just a human being. I'm from the projects, too.

I grew up pretty much with nothing.

The formula for a hit is saying what people want to hear.

I make hits.

If you really analyze my music, there is a lot of violence in my music because the Bronx, at the era and time I was coming up, was almost equivalent to how a 'Braveheart' or 'Gladiator' movie would be.