Young Dolph Quotes

This has always been my plan and my vision, to build a strong team and build artists like Glock. I always knew I could do it with artists, because I saw what I did for myself as an artist.

We ain’t got no limit with nothing we do, even if it’s not music-related.

At the end of the day, don’t nobody go into business to lose money.

There were two hoods, Magnolia and Castalia; I went to Magnolia Elementary. Back then there was slick beefing – all the Castalia kids would go over to Magnolia.

You can’t be playing halfway or you are gonna get halfway results.

The best thing is to invest in yourself, because it takes money to make money.

My haters is bigger than life.

We did so much music together, before he got locked up, it’s just, Gucci, he don’t hold on to music. He like, Man, let’s put this out, let’s put that out, let’s put this out. That’s what he do. He like to put out a lot of music.

When people think Down South they think: ‘They’re not up on game,’ or ‘They ain’t hip.’

I like peace and quiet. It’s like I’m a loner.

I ain’t finna be beefing back and forth about no girl, bruh. I’m not doing that.

I respect people that build a career for themselves.

I don’t have no deadbeat dads around me. How do you look hanging with me, when I got kids that I am taking care of and you in the backseat not taking care of your kids?

I’ve been targeted since I was 17, 18, 19.

It’s a big world and I got a lotta money to get.

I’m done doing music so I can go kick it with my son.

Not a lot of people make it out from where I’m from but I’m a living example showing you that it’s possible. Word hard, play hard.

I’ve been enjoying life for a while.

Everybody you see around me, they’re kings. Every last one of them. I ain’t the only one that got paper.

People, my age, people older, people younger, it’s like they look up to me. They listen to my lyrics for wisdom. They listen to my lyrics for like game. They listen to my lyrics for real deal beneficial purposes.

I don’t want to play police games. When you start playing police games, I take myself out of the equation.

Music is like art, so I just paint all my pictures and put ’em out there.

It’s the reality of being Black in this country. You can have money, and you can be a benefactor and a leader in your community, but all people see is Black skin.

But that was our thing from day one: to make Paper Route Empire strong. That’s why I never wanted to sign to no label.

I got a lot of artists, and I been dropping all my artists’ projects, and they going up.

I’m here to satisfy the people. I’m here to teach. I’m here to motivate. I’m here to give people the adrenaline, the push and support.

My cousin put me on Three 6 Mafia and Playa Fly. My other big cousin put me on 8Ball and MJG.

Ain’t nothing like family.

In a relationship, whether you got money to deal with it or no money to deal with it, the best relationships are going to be the ones where you understand each other.

Every decision you make, you got to stand on that decision.

I told myself, if I sacrifice Young Dolph and never sign to a major label and I get Young Dolph hot? I’m going to earn and get all of these relationships and do a lot of networking. I’m gonna know the business, all the way, ins and outs.

That first tape I did dropped in 2009. It was just for fun, I’m like ‘I’m just going to do something to have fun.’ Everyone was just ‘put out a tape. You’re young. You’ve got money. It ain’t gonna hurt you. Who’s it gonna hurt?’ So what I ended up doing was I put out the tape, pressed up 20,000 CDs, flooded the streets.

I’m not like most artists or most CEOs – I’m a CEO first, then an artist.

There’s a lot of people in this game that wait for Paper Route, Dolph or Glock to drop just to get that new lingo and style and see what type of creativity we on.

When I talk about success I don’t mean music business, I just mean the people around me.

I’d rather motivate somebody all day long.

I always liked money, so when I was 15, 16 I went headfirst in the streets.

There are three rules for being in the Paper Route Illuminati. Rule number one: get the money first. Rule number two: don’t forget to get the money. How do you make that money? You can’t make money without making sacrifices.

I got responsibilities I got to take on whether I like it or not.

Listen to ‘Dream.’ It’s just me all the way. It’s like raw. It’s gutter. It’s real. It’s authentic. It ain’t like nobody else. Don’t sound like nobody else, no nothing.

You make good music, you’re going to get good results.

You only get one shot at life, one life to live, make the most out of it put as many smiles as you can on people’s faces, help as many people as you can, get you some paper. Live life, you and your folks.

Everything I know and everything I got, I had to teach myself.

I’m a person. I don’t like having security.

Memphis wasn’t hot before Dolph came out.

When I’m finished doing music or whatever, I want people to remember me as just being great.

Baller Alert‘ is based on my lifestyle. As I talk about in the song, I’ve done a lot of dirt and worked hard to get to where I am. This song, like a lot of my songs, is about celebrating life.

I know how to make myself hot. I can drop my own music. I can shoot my own videos.

I’m not going to play with the police.

You work hard enough everybody going to see it.

When you from Down South, it’s, ‘You’re a trap rapper,’ ‘You’re a street rapper.’ They try to put you in a category.

RIP to George Floyd and condolences to the whole family.

I’m through buying cars. I’m through buying jewelry.

People that know they gotta work every day, them the kinda people I respect.

I told my grandma a long time ago that I was going to take my mom and dad out the hood.