Adolph Robert Thornton, Jr. (July 27, 1985 – November 17, 2021), better known by his stage name Young Dolph, was an American rapper. In 2016, he released his debut studio album, King of Memphis, which peaked at number 49 on the Billboard 200 chart. He was featured on O.T. Genasis’ hit single “Cut It”, which peaked at number 35 on the Billboard Hot 100. Young Dolph’s seventh album, Rich Slave, was released in 2020 and became his highest-charting project, debuting at number four on the Billboard 200.
Young Dolph Quotes
“Never wait on nobody. Go for what you know.”
- “You work, so I respect you. You don’t work, what can we do? We can’t relate.”
- “When I’m finished doing music or whatever, I want people to remember me as just being great.”
- “Once you get up and you finally get across that line and you’ve got a brand to stand on, it’s going to be beneficial.”
- “Have a good team. Let them do what they do and you do what you do. Have people around you that work and that will want to make you work even harder.”
- “While you’re waiting on even trying to do anything, try investing in yourself. Just try to keep going up and coming up with new things to do, being creative every day. Make this your life.”
- “It’s always easier in retrospect to be confident in the decisions you’ve made if they actually worked out. Society admires risk-takers, but only the ones whose risks pay off.”
- “I respect the hustle, because I live and breathe it. I believe that for those who work for it, opportunities will knock, doors will swing open, fears will be conquered, and risks will pay off.”
- “You give up time. At the end of the day that’s the only thing you can’t pay for, the thing you can’t get back. So you gotta learn to sacrifice that time to put [towards] something you trying to invest in.”
- “Don’t try to… go to work and try to go to the other job. And if you is gonna do other things on the side, make sure it’s like it’s only for the money just to support what you really want to do and you give it your all.”
- “I’m going to invest in my career. I’ma invest in my future. I’ll invest in little dude next to me just because I see something in him. I’m going to do anything that’s beneficial, that I see bringing my future to life. So that’s my money and my time.”
- “What I want people to take away from my music, man, is just how to take care of responsibilities, how to live life and enjoy life. 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.”
- “I was raised primarily under my grandmother’s roof in Memphis. I became a man quickly and [learned] what it took to be one. My own transformation from boyhood was accelerated by my grandmother’s passing when I was 16 or 17. The family structure collapsed onto my shoulders as I was the oldest of a handful of brothers and sisters. I was paying for everything. Going school shopping for my little brothers, sending my sisters money to Chicago. Just doing a whole lot of sh*t, it made me grow up fast, it made me become a hustler real fast. I had to go for what I know.”
- “I almost died when Daddyo and I was involved in a serious car accident while driving from our Memphis stomping grounds to Chicago. It’s just certain sh*t, not only the car accident but my life as a whole, like, when you’re going too hard, you gotta tell yourself like, ‘Man, I gotta slow down.’ Then my grandma had passed and all that so, it was just everything leading up to me like, I’m grown now. I ain’t a kid no more. I got responsibilities I got to take on whether I like it or not. If I ain’t start rapping it’s like, I been coming close as hell, close as hell to death and fatal tragedies and sh*t, know what I’m saying? And it just made me open my eyes and start thinking smarter and being wiser.”
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