Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., known professionally as Lil Wayne, is an American hip hop recording artist and author from New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1991, Lil Wayne joined Cash Money Records as the youngest member of the label. In 1996, Lil Wayne joined the southern hip hop group Hot Boys. Most of the group’s success came with their platinum-selling album Guerrilla Warfare and the 1999 single “Bling Bling”. Along with being the flagship artist of Cash Money Records, Lil Wayne is also the Chief Executive Officer of his own label imprint, Young Money Entertainment, which he founded in 2005.
I Want To Make Sure My Family's Straight.
I'm Blessed And I Thank God For Every Day For Everything That Happens For Me.
Miami Has Embraced Me And I Love Them For That.
I'm Not An Example For How People Should Live Their Lives. Never In My Life Would I Ever Set Out To Be An Example For People On How To Live Their Lives. If You Need An Example For How To Live, Then You Just Shouldn't Have Been Born. Straight Up.
I've Been Criticized For The Things I Chose And Things I've Chosen To Do.
Honestly, I Don't Listen To Nobody Else's Music But My Own. It's Kind Of Like Sports To Me. You Don't See Kobe Bryant At A Lebron James Game - He Just Works On His Own Game. And That's What I Do. I Only Listen To Me, So I Can Criticize And Analyze And All Those Things.
I Am Very Humble, And I Am Very Gracious And Very Grateful For Everything That Happens To Me And About Me And Around Me.
Trying To Tear Down The Past Prohibits You From Building Up Your Future.
I Just Feel Out Of This World Sometimes.
Don't Make An Opinion On Me If You Don't Know Nothin' About Me.
I Go Wherever My Creativity Takes Me.
I'm A Gangster, And Gangsters Don't Ask Questions.
Let Me Do Me.
I Like Being Misunderstood.
I Always Believe That To Be The Best, You Have To Smell Like The Best, Dress Like The Best, Act Like The Best. When You Throw Your Trash In The Garbage Can, It Has To Be Better Than Anybody Else Who Ever Threw Trash In The Garbage Can.
I Don't Take Nothin' From No One. I Do What I Wanna Do. And I'm Gonna Do That Until The Day I Die. And If I Can't Do That, Then I'll Just Die.
I Look At Things As 'Everything Is Meant To Be.'
Jail Didn't Make Me Find God, He's Always Been There. They Can Lock Me Up, But My Spirit And My Love Can Never Be Confined To Prison Walls.
Life Is A Lot Like Skateboarding.
The Most Bizarre Thing I've Ever Read About Myself Is That I Was Dead. That Was Kind Of Weird To Read That I'm Dead - Mostly Because I Was Reading It.
I Always Knew I Couldn't Sing, But I Also Knew I Had A Voice That Isn't Heard By Many, And That I Could Learn How To Stretch It And Make Songs Sound Good.
I Don't Like To Stop. I Believe You Stop When You Die.
As Long As People Remember Me Forever, That Will Be Enough For Me.
We're Here To Live. We're Here To Do, We're Here To Be.
I Know It's An Experience That I Need To Have If God's Putting Me Through It.
I Don't Look For Signs. But When Things Happen, I Say, 'Ok, Something Must Be Right.' Or 'Ok, Something Must Be Wrong.'
Nothing Scares Me But God.
I Feel Like Everything I Do Is Successful And Productive. It's Gonna Be Hard To Tell Me I'm Slipping.
I'm An Addict, I'm Addicted To Success. Thankfully, There's No Rehab For Success.
Don't Judge Me. You Wanna Judge Me, Put On A Black Gown And Get A Gavel. Get In Line With The Rest Of Them That's About To Judge Me. I Got Court Dates Every Other Month. It's Me Against The World - That's How I Feel.
They Say I'm The Hottest Mc In The Game. If You Label Me That, I Will Live Up To It. Trust Me.
I Don't Want To Be Understood Because If People Understand Me, They Get Tired Of Me.
Hate Is Only A Form Love That Hasn't Found A Way To Express Itself Logically.
The More Time You Spend Contemplating What You Should Have Done... You Lose Valuable Time Planning What You Can And Will Do.
I Believe That Music Is Another Form Of News. Music Is Another Form Of Journalism To Me So I Have To Cover All The Areas With My Album.
I'm Always Creative.
I Don't Have To Prove Anything.
I Believe In God And His Son, Jesus.
I Am My City. Nobody From My City Wants To Hear About My City.
I Love To Work.
I Don't Think I've Ever Googled Myself.
You're Either Living Or You're Dead.
I Like People That Enjoy Life, 'Cause I Do The Same.
Everybody Know, I Don't Do No Promoting. I Don't Ever Have To Promote Nothing, That's The Beauty Of Lil Wayne.
Where I Come From, The Block Become Your Daddy.
I Want To Be A Skater.
I Don't Think Nothing. I Just Do My Work.
I Do Not Consider Myself A Literal Genius.
Things I Say Have Value And I Would Love For You To Value Them, However You Get It.
You Supposed To Be Able To Do Anything In This World. That's What Martin Luther King Told Me.