- Key: There are two types of people: those that talk the talk and those that walk the walk. People who walk the walk sometimes talk the talk but most times they don't talk at all, 'cause they walkin'. Now, people who talk the talk, when it comes time for them to walk the walk, you know what they do? They talk people like me into walkin' for them.
- Shelby: If you had to say something different other than "beat that bitch," what would it be?
- DJay: I don't know. Shit. Stuff like, um... stomp that ho?
- Key: Just because you got the bacon, lettuce, and tomato don't mean I'm gonna give you my toast.
- DJay: Who's this niggah?
- Key: That's Shelby, he plays piano in my church. I thought he could help us develop your sound.
- DJay: You know he's white, right?
- Key: Naw, he just light-skinned.
- DJay: [at the end of the movie, when walking back to his cell] EVERYBODY GOT TO HAVE A DREAM.
- DJay: See... man ain't like a dog. And when I say "man," I'm talking about man as in mankind, not man as in men. Because men, well, we a lot like a dog. You know, we like to piss on things. Sniff a bitch when we can. Even get a little pink hard-on the way they do. We territorial as shit, you know, we gonna protect our own. But man, he know about death. Got him a sense of history. Got religion. See... a dog, man, a dog don't know shit about no birthdays or Christmas or Easter bunny, none of that shit. And one day God gonna come calling, so you know, they going through life carefree. But people like you and me, man, we always guessing. Wondering, "What if?" You know what I mean? So when you say to me, "Hey, I don't think we should be doing this," I gotta say, baby, I don't think we should be doing this neither, but we ain't gonna get no move on in this world, lying around in the sun, licking our ass all day. I mean, we man. I mean, you a woman and all, but we man. So with this said, you tell me what it is you wanna do with your life.
- DJay: You Mormons are some brave mother fuckers.
- DJay: If I can pimp $20 ho's out the back of this motherfucking Chevy, I can pimp Skinny.
- DJay: Skinny, man. Tell me this shit just fell out your pocket, right?
- Nola: [crying] Do you know what I do in the back of them cars? Do you? Everybody's got something to do, every body's got something important going on in their lives but me, D! And I want something!
- DJay: What do you want?
- Nola: I don't really know, but I want something.
- DJay: What... do you want?
- Nola: I don't know.
- DJay: Tell me what the fuck you wanna do, man!
- Nola: Not this, D!
- Shug: I get like this because I'm pregnant and everything... but, you know, letting me sing on the... on the demo and everything like you do... well, it just... it made me feel real. Real special. And... I mean, I know y'all gonna be moving on and moving up... and y'all gonna get real good people to sing, you know, back up for you and everything... but I just... D, I need you to know it meant the world to me.
- DJay: You in charge. Say it.
- Nola: I'm in charge.
- DJay: Say it like you mean it.
- Nola: [after a pause] I'm in charge.
- DJay: Is a pig's pussy pork?
- DJay: I'm here trying to squeeze a dollar out of a dime, and I ain't even got a cent man.
- DJay: Man, I ain't tryin' to call no ho' no bitch.
- [repeated line]
- Key: Nola, kill them fans.
- Yevette: You wanna know what I'm feeling? I'm thrilled! Okay, thrilled. What woman wouldn't want her husband spending all day in a house full of hoes?
- Nola: How come Lex gets to score at that strip club and I can't?
- DJay: Cause we've been over this ten times, Nola - You've got what they call a bad equilibrium and it ain't your fault you just knock into shit. I put you on that stage in them heels, tricks gonna be yelling "timber!" .
- Nola: I'm in these heels every day and you never seen me fall down once!
- DJay: Cause you sittin', Nola! And that ain't much of a fall to the floor. Look, why don't you just let me do the thinking for you, OK? You do what you do, and let me do what I do.
- Nola: One day, you'll have to tell me about that.
- DJay: About what?
- Nola: The fuck it is you do!
- DJay: What did you just say to me?
- [the trick from earlier comes back]
- Nola: [leans out of the window] Hey honey. Wanna see me walk in these heels all the way to your lap? I'll be right over.
- Nola: [to DJay] Looks like he got air in his car, D. Must be working hard as you.
- Nola: D, I can tell when you're messing with my head, because I let you, because sometimes my head needs to be messed with. But right now, just don't. Okay?
- Lexus: I ain't workin' day shift no more, D. I don't care if I have to catch a taxi ride home. I ain't workin with these stank ass, trucker bait hoes no more.
- Key: Sometimes I feel like... like I talked such a good game when we was young, man. About my own studio and my own label, that... shit, DJay, now I'm just payin' rent, man. This shit right here gotta work. It gotta work, man, 'cause it ain't over for me.
- Nola: Everyone tells me my hair is sexy.
- Lexus: And then they nut.
- DJay: That's a bottom bitch for you. I mean, we got everything we need right here. And all this stuff in this... this little-bitty space, man, it just looks so much bigger now. I'm here trying to squeeze a dollar out of a dime, and I ain't even got a cent, man.
- Key: It takes time, Djay.
- [At Skinny's party, DJay has been sidelined by his entourage until he speaks up]
- DJay: Hey, Skinny! What the fuck happened to you, man?
- [beat]
- DJay: What the fuck happened to you, man?
- Skinny Black: What the fuck did you just say?
- DJay: I don't mean no disrespect and all. I just remember when your first underground crunk hit the motherfucking streets, man, that shit flew through Memphis like a motherfucking typhoon. Y'all was there, man. Nigga couldn't even walk halfway down the block without the pavement crumbling underneath his feet because some cat was bumping your shit out the back of his Caddy, man. We just miss you, Skinny, that's all.
- Skinny Black: Miss me?
- [to lady friend]
- Skinny Black: Get up, bitch.
- [to DJay]
- Skinny Black: Hold up. Hold up. Hold up. Miss me? Nigga, I don't even... So wait, wait, wait, wait. You trying to say I can't cut it no more? Like I ain't the shit? That's what you trying to tell me?
- DJay: I ain't saying nothing like that.
- Skinny Black: Then what the fuck is you saying? What is you saying, then?
- DJay: [takes long hit off a blunt] Dig this right here, man. One day, this whole motherfucking place is gonna be gone. This club, this city, man. This whole U.S. Of A., man, is just gonna turn to dust, right? And a whole new civilization is gonna rise from this one. And they gonna start digging, you know. They gonna dig up the pyramids over in Egypt. They gonna dig up the Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty and the Empire State. But if a nigga wanna know about me? Wanna know about Memphis? All they gotta do is find your first underground tape, nigga.
- [DJay and Skinny smile]
- DJay, Skinny Black: North Third Thugs.
- DJay: Motherfuck it, man. That was the shit.
- Skinny Black: You know, I cut that shit in my own mama's laundry room, man. Boy, it was raw as hell, but I put everything I had into that shit, man.
- DJay: Yeah, but see, to me that was a sign of your genius, you know? See, because it's not enough for a man to climb Mount Everest. You know, he gotta do that shit with the least amount of tools.
- Skinny Black: One man and his skills.
- DJay: Like the samurai say, "The sword is only as powerful as its master." And it ain't the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size
- DJay, Skinny Black: ...of the fight in the dog.
- DJay: [when Nola walks in the room] Get the fuck outta here man.
- [leaning Lexus's head against his stomach]
- DJay: You hear that? That's my gut saying "hurry the fuck up", okay?
- DJay: [to Shug] Push that shit out.
- DJay: I'm so sorry, y'all. And I'd have left them in the car, but this one right here, man, she just sniff out an air-conditioning unit like an old bloodhound bitch.
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