Paul Wall Quotes
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“Ninety percent grind, 10 percent sleep. That's our motto.”
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“Whether it's in the streets or its a nine-to-five, you can be hustling in many different aspects.”
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“With Houston, the H stands for 'hustle.' There's a billboard that says, 'Houston, hustle, heart, and home.' That encompasses Houston.”
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“I think bad breath is… just hard to get past. Someone with just horrible breath, yeah. I'm not talking about just onion breath. I'm talking about you been brushing your teeth and using the mouthwash and it still smells like you've been tongue-kissing the toes of a gorilla - that's horrible.”
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“Swishahouse, it started off as just a crew making mixtapes and that's when I got down with it back in like 1998. It wasn't a record label at first. It was all just for promotion, for fun, and we just had a crew representin' for our hood.”
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“Houston isn't about a you or an I or a me, it's about a 'we.'”
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“I try to keep an open mind - not knowing it all.”
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“I was morbidly obese, 120 pounds overweight. It was just embarrassing. I'd be on stage feeling like I was about to collapse. I'd get dizzy spells.”
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“I was hustling out of shops kind of doing, selling music out of my trunk, selling grills out of my trunk, too. And then I teamed up with Johnny Dang, he was the local, the grill man who made them for the dentist.”
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“You want to be able to trust somebody's word.”
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“The surgery I got is called gastric sleeve.”
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“There's a lot of culture vultures out there taking our culture down here in Texas.”
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“You can look in the mirror and try to hide it and cover it up, and it may work here or there, but there ain't no shirt or hat you can put on or haircut you can get to hide the fact that you're morbidly obese.”
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“Don't be so quick to turn your back on people who are fighting things. You need to be there for them.”
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“Me and Ron C, I was cool with a lot of his family. We went to church together and one of his cousins, B Sight, that was my boy. We had a couple jobs together matter fact, we used to get down, he gave me the nickname Paul Wall. For some reason he just always called me that.”
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“I was Overflow. Another one I had was the Caped Crusader. Chamillionaire was Payroll. That was our group back then, Payroll and the Caped Crusader. We grew up on the same street so we lived a few houses down from each other. So we knew each other pretty much all our life.”
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“You can spend $200 or $50 for tennis shoes - it's about what you can afford.”
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“I'd be on the airplane and have to ask for seatbelt extensions.”
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“I want to be here for my kids. I don't want to have a heart attack.”
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“I just try to live my life as who I am.”
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“People always tell me I'm an anomaly or an outlier. I'm just me.”
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“To me, one of the greatest albums I ever put out was the album I did with Statik Selektah.”
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“Now that I got a son, it encourages me to work even harder.”
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“Helping teach my son right from wrong, what to do and how to be a man, just about life in general, same thing with my daughter, it's just very important to me.”
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“When my mom grew up, her father was in the military so she grew up all over the world. She lived in Germany, Jerusalem, Switzerland, all over.”
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“I've always been adventurous - my wife calls me 'the Hip Hop Crocodile Hunter' - if you can survive in the hood, you can survive anywhere.”
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“Sometimes you're with a producer who just makes beats and you can kinda do your thing to whatever beats they come up with. But sometimes you get with a producer who really produces you and the music together, not just the beat then you can kinda throw in your ideas and vibe off each other.”