Gangbanging is a survival instinct, regardless of how anybody tries to paint it..

Your parents are supposed to tell you to make decisions that are gonna help you and that'll have a positive effect on your life and your well-being..

If you're a real hip-hop fan and a real street music fan, and you just love good music, you're gonna play it from top to bottom, and you're gonna get….

My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years..

My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years. But as I got older, my pops tried to keep me involved with the culture by….

An artist always know everything he does, you know what I'm saying, all the record he starts and don't end up in the public and just sit on the hardd….

It's my opinion that, if Barack did want to solve the gang problem, number one would be to work with people from the inside out, people who can actua….

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up..

Money is a tool – it’s the means, not the end. Inspiration is the metric that dictates whether or not a project is a success. It’s more realistic tha….

On a mission your worst enemy is idle time..

A lot of artists come into the game with a radio record, but they don't establish the fans as fans of their style of music. It's just that they're a ….

I kinda came into my manhood, or what I thought was my adulthood, early. I had to show up, and I had to make sure I had gas money, food money, rent m….

If you don't know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it's kind of hard to put things together..

My thing is that I don't give no person that much power over my path that I'm walking. Not one person can make or break what I'm doing, except me or ….

Obviously from childhood to my teenage years, I really came into my own. I left the house early; I was on the streets when I was, like, 15. I've been….

[In Eritrea] in key positions - president, government, police - everybody's the same [color]. It's a country run by its people. No racial class, ever….

If you 35, 28, or 30 years old, and you decide you're gonna pick up a rag and start bangin', and you can look yourself in the mirror and you still fe….

I didn't wanna be looked at as no idiot, and I didn't wanna feel like I was uneducated, because I really stopped going to school at 15. I was never i….

Luck is just bein' prepared at all times, so when the door opens you're ready..

As gang members, as young dudes in the streets, especially in L.A., we're the effect of a situation. We didn't wake up and create our own mindstate a….

I'm more focused on giving solutions and inspiration more than anything..