Mannie Fresh

When a lot of people are calling it a night at 2 A.M., New Orleans is coming alive.

To me, Def Jam put my career on hold. I was used to making 13-14 songs a year, and they trickled that down to nothing.

There's been enough building of fences with labels trying to categorize artists, limiting artists' ability to be themselves.

I've always had good connections with cars and always knew how to fix them, so I didn't have trouble with breakdowns.

I have some songs on 'Tha Carter V,' but if I hear a song five times, I don't like it no more.

I've got different drum machines that I use for different things, but I think the older ones are always the best when it comes down to getting that 808 bass.

The Cash Money sound pretty much changed the era. It kind of put the business into rap. It was like, 'Get your money, dude. This is a billion dollar business.'

I see how attorneys are, and nobody is really on your side. It's about money. The attorney is not chasing after your money; he's chasing after his fee.

Money makes everybody evil when you think about it.

Hood Rich' was super important to Cash Money.

We still have money issues. We will always have them as long as Cash Money is selling anything that has Mannie Fresh on it.

Cash Money really had no intentions of being a rap label because when it started, it really was based on bounce. It was one bounce song after another. I started to doing bounce songs for them, and they jumped off.