"I realized excess wasn't right for me when I saw everyone else doing it. I thought, Is that what I look like? Do white folks turn on the teevee and see me and say to their children, 'Son, let me show you what an ignorant nigga is'? I know that ain't how I want to come off. And look at Bill Gates and Paul Allen--I live up here with them. You don't see them running around in Rolls Royces talking about, 'Whassup, nigga?' When you got true money, you don't have to talk about it. Some of these brothers riding around in Bentleys--I pay more in taxes than they earn. But who am I to knock them? I did the same thing."--
Sir Mix-a-Lot, in a 2000
Vibe interview