Petey Pablo Quotes

�That bullet is a tribal mark, orientation, something we all gotta get sometimes -- just as long as we don't die, it's fine.�

I grew up Greenville. And I moved to Raleigh some years later.

The only struggle came from me wanting more for my family and feeling like if they had one less individual to take care of � if my mom only had her and my sister and my grandmother and my aunt to take care of, couldn�t she do the things she was doing for me for herself? That�s the reason I took myself away from my family. I left home when I was 13 years old to assume the responsibilities of being a man.

My goal in this music business is to be here as long as I�m alive. I want my music to be here. I want to be the Michael Jackson and the Prince of hip-hop. I want to be a legend. I want to change the world. I want to give them songs that mean something.

So when he gave it to me, I thought he was testin� me to see if I was worthy of a Timbaland track. And I respected that. So he gave me the track and nobody expected me to do a �Raise Up� to that track. I wrote it after he had gave it to me.