You go to any town, any city, any state in America and there's always a McDonald's. In a lot of places around the world, it's almost the same thing. ….

Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far..

Promise to my momma I'ma make it to the Top.. So I'ma keep climbing til my heartbeat drop.

How big can you be if just the underground niggas know you? You can't buy your mom a house when you just an underground celebrity..

I didn't even have to be a big fan of someone to enjoy hearing them speak. I remember when Nikki Giovanni came - I wasn't really familiar with her. B….

I'm the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the ci….

When I first started rapping, when I switched my style to more like a punch line style - this is when I'm like 13 years old - and I switched it to th….

They say time is money but really it's not If we ever go broke, then time is all we got And we can't make that back, no you can't make that back.

While silly ni**as argue over who gon' snatch the crown / Look around my ni**a, white people have snatched the sound / This year I'll probably go to ….

Life is a movie, pick your own role, Climb your own ladder or you dig your own hole..

You can't take yourself too seriously. Like, yeah, I'm doin' all that, but still I don't feel like I've done anything, really. I feel blessed 'cause ….

When you're a rapper, just a rapper, you have to kind of settle for whatever comes your way - if a beat is hot, you wanna rap on it, period..

My fans love me for me, my beats, my rhymes..

I'm not a conscious rapper, all those things we talk about, the struggle, the pain, the outlook to the future, keep your head up. I try to put all th….

The same ones you love will bring you pain..

In my mind, New York was the place where they had the underground rap shows and I could get in on some ciphers and just rap. This whole fantasy world….

I think if I did something in the pop world right now, it would be for Rihanna. I'd love to do something production wise for her..

Yeah school girl, cool girl. Your dress is sexy and your momma is a cougar..

If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five..

I truly believe that I make my path and I set my course, and where I land, at the end of the day, or the end of my career, [is] because of me. Of cou….

I seen a baby cry seconds later he laughs... the beauty of life, the pain never lasts..