When I became a man, and I started to understand the difference between the truth and what your parents are supposed to tell you, there's a differenc….

If it wasn't for the music bein' my outlet, I'd probably be hustlin', I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to go and get a nine-to-five, I never finish….

All the smart money got they bets on me / And all the real niggas wish the best for me.

And it's possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce..

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….

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

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 ….

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….

[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'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….

On a mission your worst enemy is idle time..

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….

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….

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

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 ….

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….

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….

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….

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….

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